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ever, as first stated, so much confusion in names and varieties that there 

 will always be disappointment and loss on the part of the amateur 

 grower by endeavoring to follow advice of this one and the other. Lo- 

 cality and soil also differ so much that success or failure of certain 

 varieties can be made in a single field. For instance, Ilale's Early will 

 not succeed in low, rich land, while Smock Free would do fairly well. 



In planting large orchards we have learned to take all these things 

 into account, and to give even reasonably beneficial advice, it is necessary 

 to know where and on what character of soil the different varieties are 

 to be planted, also the distance from and the demands of the markets. 

 Let us illustrate by this: The Mixon Cling is one of the best and most 

 profitable of all peaches, provided we can educate the consumer to use 

 them. The Free, adapted to all soils, is hardy as well as the buds, fruit 

 good size, beautifully colored, always uniform, .splendid quality, a good 

 shipper, the best of keepers, and has no superior for canning but thor- 

 oughly ripened Heath Cling (which are always scarce), and yet the ordi- 

 nary housewife refuses to take them because of the trouble in preparing 

 them. So it is, we must be governed by market demands, hence the ne- 

 cessity of the statement made above regarding personal experience in test- 

 ing more of the yellow varieties, which, however, seem to be almost uni- 

 versally more tender in buds than others, the Salway being the most noted 

 exception to this rule. 



VARIETIES OP PEACHES RECOMMENDED FOR COMMERCIAL 

 PLANTATIONS IN CENTRAL INDIANA. 



BY WILBUR C. STOUT, MONROVIA. 



Many things are to be considered in recommending a list of varieties 

 for a commercial plantation in Central Indiana. Often the best peach 

 one year is of little value the following year. Drought, wet weather, 

 blizzards or untimely frosts get in their work of desti'uction. We have 

 found the following list our most desirable ones: Sneed opens the sea- 

 son; sells fairly well; poor quality, much like Alexander. Sneed is closely 

 followed by the Alexander type of some fifteen varieties, all very much 

 alike, often pay well. Alexander, Amsden and Early Canada are as valu- 

 able as any in the list. Following them we have Greensboro. The most 

 hardy peach in fruit bud recommended; a good white peach. I can't 

 like Triumph, but it sells fairly well and is very hardy here. It is almost 

 a cling, the first yellow peach to ripen. Hyne's Surprise and Hale's Early 

 are very much alike with me. and are valuable. I would have but little 

 choice between them. 



Early Rivers also ripens about the same time, a valuable white peach, 

 and is also very hardy in fruit bud and sells well, 



