346 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



PEACHES TO PLANT. 



N planting a commercial orchard great care should be taken in select- 

 ing the varieties. If a mistake be made here all the other work goes 

 for nothing. Some varieties of peaches are local and do well only on 

 certain soils and in certain localities. It is always better to observe 

 how certain varieties do in your locality. I shall briefly state how 

 some of the leading varieties have done with us during the last few 

 Of a great many varieties that we have planted successfully and have 

 fruited, we have found the following to give the best results : — Troth, Early 

 York, Mamie Ross, Thurber, Captain Ede, Elberta and Ward's Late. The 

 Thurber is a peach comparatively little known. It is one of those compara- 

 tively new sorts that were thought a great deal of when they first came out, but 

 were soon forgotten in the headlong rush for newer and more highly advertised 

 sorts. It is a white peach with a faint red cheek, very firm, productive, 

 remarkable for its hardiness in both bud and blossom. We had fair crops of 

 Thurber when no other variety in the orchard bore a peach. Its quality, how 

 ever, is not first-class, and that is probably the only objection. 



The Thurber gets ripe from ten days to two weeks earlier than the old 

 Mixon freestone. It is a good shipper and profitable. The Captain Ede is a 

 peach originated by the man whose name it bears. It is a golden yellow free- 

 stone, finest quality, ripens same time as Thurber. It is hardy and a splendid 

 bearer. Elberta is another good peach, ripening about with the Thurber and 

 Captain Ede It is yellow with a fine red cheek, a beauty, good quality and 

 productive. It contains about all the good points one could desire in a peach. 

 Old Mixon does not do very well with us, but about forty mile^ north of where 

 I live it does very well indeed. Ward's late is the Thurber over again, only 

 of a little better quality, ripens about one month later than the Thurber. For 

 a medium early peach we have found nothing that excels the old-fashioned 

 Troth and Early York. Mamie Ross is a large, white peach, with a red cheek 

 and freestone, fine seedling of the Chinese Cling and Early Rivers, that ripens 

 about ten days later than the Early York. It has proved to be quite a good 

 peach. It is the best of its season I have ever found. It is extra large, hardy 

 productive and profitable. A few years ago we planted an experimental 

 orchard containing thirty or forty new varieties. — William Gould, to lUinois 

 Hort. Society. 



Note by Editor. — In Canada we need a good peach to come between 

 the Hales and the Early Crawford, and some say the Yellow St. John is the 

 peach to bridge over this gap. The Early York we discarded some years ago. 

 It was not large enough. Lord Palmerston is a fine peach, white-fleshed, 

 ripening September 7th, as the Early Crawford is just over. It is almost equal 

 to Old Mixon in quality, and is a firmer peach. Bowslaugh's Late is one of 

 our best late peaches. 



