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THE CROSBY PEACH. 



(Excelsior, Hale's Hardy.) 



N this journal for the month of October, cHned to boom this variety very much be- 

 1892, we gave a colored plate of the cause our markets demand large sized fruits 

 ^ Crosby, and a description of the same, and will not pay high prices for a grade 

 as gleaned from the experience of others. running as small as two inches. The follow- 

 In this number we give a photograph of an ing is a description of this peach : 

 actual specimen, grown under favorable con- Origin. — Massachusetts, 1876, by Mr. 

 ditions, at Maplehurst, in 1900, with the Crosby, nurseryman ; named Excelsior by 

 accompanying description as made from by Massachusetts Agricultural College ; 

 the fruit itself. It is perhaps needless Hale's Hardy because Mr. J. H. Hale was 

 to say that both these latter, being made by the first grower to plant it extensively ; and 

 a fruit grower in the interest of his fellows, finally Crosby by the United States Division 

 differ considerably from the former which of Pomology. 



were got up in the interests of the speculator 

 who was making money out of his new in- 

 troduction. Then, our colored plate showed 

 a specimen four inches in diameter; now, our 

 photograph shows only 2f(, while the aver- 



Tree. — Vigorous, healthy, fairly hardy 

 and very productive. 



Fruit. — Medium size, 2 inches to 2^ in 

 either diameter ; form almost round, slightly 

 one sided ; color yellow, with bright red 



age, in ordinary conditions, is only two cheeks, very pretty ; cavity deep, abrupt ; 



inches. We spoke of it as attractive and apex small in a slight depression ; suture 



unusually hardy, but now we are disappoint- traceable. 



ed to find it undersize and very little if any Flesh. — Color, bright yellow, red at the 



more hardy than other varieties. Mr. Wood- stone; texture fine, moderately juicy, tenderj; 



ward said of it at the meeting of the Western flavor sweet and very agreeable. 

 New York Horticultural Society in 1900, Season. — Sept. 20th to Oct. 5th. 



comparing it with the Elberta, "You can Quality. — Very good for dessert, and 



sell Elbertas for four times the price of the good for cooking. 

 Crosby." Value. — Good for home market. 



On the whole, therefore, we are not in- 



