THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 

 Peach-Production in the United States 1890-1910 — Con/intt^d 



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NEW TYPES OF PEACHES 



The capacity of species to split into types, using types in a broad 

 sense, is, we all agree, one of the greatest assets of ciiltivated plants. 

 Through diversity of types come adaptabilities to soils and climates and 

 variety in the crop, to mention but two of the essentials of standard crop- 

 plants. New types afford the material from which greatest progress comes 

 in fruit-growing. In common with all fruit-growing, peach-growing has 

 received impetus from time to time from the introduction of new and 

 distinct types. In the middle of the Nineteenth Century, three previously 

 unknown types of peaches, each divisible into horticultural varieties, were 

 brought to America. All three have had important effects on the peach - 

 industry in America. 



North China peaches. — Not very distinct from the Persian peaches 

 at the outset, its outliers nmning into some of the other groups as well, 

 " North China " is now but little more than a name for a conglomerate 

 lot of varieties grown everywhere in America except in the sub-tropic parts 

 of the Gulf States. The North China race includes varieties characterized 



