THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUPIST. 



your success with Concords, for in the 

 first place the English people don't like 

 their flavor, and, in the second, they do 

 not hold to the stem ; when They arrive, 

 they are all shelled, and they want 

 to be able to lift them by the bunch. 

 Rogers 4 is a better class of grape to 

 ship us. Still, of course, there is a 

 possibility of the middle class taking 



your grapes. If once you could get them 

 to like them, we could easily dispose of 

 four or five carloads a day in Liverpool. 

 If you want this market, you must 

 capture it very soon, before South 

 Africa comes in. That country will be 

 a great competitor in peaches, grapes 

 and apples. 



THE ELBERTA PEACH. 



'E have been looking for a 

 good yellow fleshed peach 

 for shipment to the Eng- 

 lish market, a variety that 

 will carry better than the Crawfords do. 

 Possibly the Elberta is the peach we 

 are looking for, though so far it has 

 been very little grown in Ontario. Mr- 

 Frances W. Glen, of Brooklyn, writes 

 us, Aug. I St. 



" Please permit me to call the atten- 

 tion of your readers to the Elberta 

 peach. As a market peach it ranks 

 first-class. It is large, well shaped, high 

 colored, handsome, and of excellent 

 quality. It reaches this market from 

 Georgia in prime condition. Of course 

 it is a yellow fleshed peach of the Early 

 Crawford style. Grown in Ontario it 

 would come into market the latter part 

 of August or early part of September, 

 and at that season would command a 

 good price in our North Atlantic Cities. 

 I never have seen peaches ready for 

 table use in such fine condition in this 

 market since I came here in 1886." 



Mr. Glen also encloses the following 

 clipping from the New York Sun : 



"The peculiar pointed peach that 

 has been sold so commonly hereabouts 

 the past few weeks is named the Elberta. 

 This peach has been out about eight 

 years, but has never before been seen in 

 such numbers in this market. The 

 smaller and medium-sized fruit is likely 

 to show the end pointed in a marked 



degree; the larger ard largest Elbertas 

 may practically lack this characteristic 

 of the smaller fruit and be round in 

 form like the ordinary peach. 



The peaches with which New York 

 has recently been supplied so abun- 

 dantly have come mostly from Georgia. 

 The Georgia peach crop this year has 

 been more abundant and more excellent 

 in quality than ever before, and fine, 

 handsome fruit from this State has been 

 sold here this year cheaper than ever ; 

 at about half the prices of last year. 

 The first of the Georgia peaches come 

 about July i ; the very plentiful supply 

 ends with the month of July, and the 

 first week in August sees practically the 

 last from Georgia. Though this year's 

 crop of Georgia peaches was the great- 

 est ever known and the prices low, they 

 are said to be still planting peach trees 

 in Georgia. 



The first peaches to arrive in this 

 market come from Florida ; the next, 

 from the Eastern coast, come from 

 Georgia. The supply of California 

 peaches in this market this year was 

 much less than usual ; the early peaches 

 commonly sold by dealers and venders 

 were mostly of the abundant crop of 

 Georgia. 



Wholesale dealers say that the Mary- 

 land, Delaware, and New Jersey peach 

 crop is light this year, and that peaches 

 are not likely to be any cheaper than 

 they have been already. 



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