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the fruit is shaded a good deal. I have fruited the Hale's July. It is a peach that stood 

 the severity of the winter of 1875, when almost all the peach orchards on the shores of 

 Lake Michigan were destroyed. It is a very fine yellow-meated peach. My wife thinks 

 there is nothing like it for canning. But it has its imperfections. It is a tree that will 

 over-bear ; and it must be thinned thoroughly. This year, in order to have good fruit, I 

 had my man thin it three times. It may bear every year, and bear profusely ; but in 

 order to get good specimens of fruit you must thin it thoroughly. While the Crawfords 

 sold in our market for two dollars a bushel this year, the Hale's July sold for three, on 

 account of its quality and on account of the glut being off the market. After that we 

 found the Smock just what we wanted ; and after that the Salway. There have been a 

 great many objections raised to the Salway, and perhaps justly. Mr. Elwanger said, in 

 one of our meetings, that he had failed to ripen it at Rochester ; but it has ripened now 

 for three seasons, and has been sent to Philadelphia and Boston and sold for four dollars a 

 bushel. Its keeping qualities are wonderful, and in favourite localities where you are 

 sure of ripening it well, I believe it is an acquisition. 



Mr. Woodward. — There is one thing I would like to see — that is, a man who can 

 tell the difference between a basket of Amsdens, one of Alexanders, one of Early Canada, 

 and one of Waterloo peaches ; and I would like to see another man who can tell the dif- 

 ference between Early Crawfords, Foster, or Allen's peach. I think that of all the early 

 peaches there was nothing that, with judicious care, we used to get so much money out of, 

 when we were in the business, as we did out of the Early Beatrice. It is the handsomest of 

 all the early shippers. It is as good a keeper as any of the early shippers. There is but 

 one objection you can raise against it, and that is as to its size ; but if you thin out your 

 trees you can get it up in such shape that it will sell with any of the peaches. There is 

 another peach that I used to grow a little, that is, Hand's Early Golden. It comes a 

 little later than the Crawford. It is a better peach than the Crawford — a better grower 

 — not as good a bearer, but a very good peach. The Salway, where you can ripen 

 it, is one of the finest peaches you can have, and it is a good keeper. I have seen them 

 repeatedljr kept until along in December. Wherever it will ripen it is a peach that is 

 profitable. 



Mr. A. M. Smith. — -I would like to endorse what Mr. Woodward said in regard to 

 the Early Beatrice. We have some three or four young trees of it ; and as a shipper I 

 consider it ahead of the Rivers, though the size is against it. If, however, it is properly 

 thinned out it is a profitable peach, and it is sure to bear every year. In regard to the 

 diflference between the Foster, Early Crawford, and Allen peaches, I would not say that 

 I could tell the diflTerence between the Foster and the Early Crawford ; but if the Allen 

 peach that Mr. Woodward refers to is the one that I have in my mind, it is as distinct 

 from the Crawford as the Spitzenburg apple is from the Baldwin. In the first place, the 

 Allen peach is a week later than the Crawford ; it is a rounder peach, and has a great 

 deal deeper colour. 



Mr. WiLLARD. — The Wager is a fine canning peach. It comes in between the Craw- 

 fords. It is exciting a good deal of interest among peach growers in our section at the 

 present time. 



Mr. A. M. Smith. — Some parties consider this Wager and the Allen identical 

 peaches. 



Mr. Woodward. — The Mountain Rose, for a not too distant market, is a very pro- 

 fitable peach. It is the only one of the white peaches, not too early, I would advise any 

 man to plant. I consider it the best of all the peaches to can. 



Mr. GoTT. — The Mountain Rose is with us one of the best peaches that we have, 

 and one of the most profitable. We can almost universally sell them for as good a price 

 as we can the yellow flesh ones. With us the Amsden's June is picked first of the three 

 mentioned by Mr. Woodward. 



Mr. Beadle. — ^1 would like to ask Mr. Willard if he knows anything of Reeve's 

 Favourite 1 



Mr. Willard. — I only know of it from what I have seen in (Delaware. I saw it 

 fruit in Delaware some few years since, and the impression I formed of it was very favour- 

 able indeed. 



