THE 



Canadian Horticuuurist 



OCTOBER, 1902 



Volume XXV 



ai 



Number 10 



ST. JOHN PEACH 



THE earliest really good peach for either 

 home use or market. Its season is 

 the end of August, just before the Early 

 Crawford ; and its fair size, yellow flesh, at- 

 tractive skin, and good quality, make it one 

 of the most satisfactory peaches for all pur- 

 poses. 



Origin. — America. 



Tree. — Vigorous, and productive. 



Fruit — Round, large, 2^ x 2^ inches ; 

 skin yellow, with dark red cheek ; suture 

 traceable on one side, sometimes by a red 

 line ; apex a tiny point in a rather deep de- 

 pression ; freestone ; flesh, yellow, tinted red 

 at stone ; juicy, sweet, rich and agreeable. 



Season. — August 20th to September ist. 



Quality. — Dessert and cooking, very good. 



Market. — ist class, the best of its season. 



^0t^s un&. Cxrmmewts 



SUCCESSFUL FRUIT GROWING. 



THE lesson of successful fruit growing 

 must be learned slowly ; and many a 

 purchaser of a fruit farm is sadly disap- 

 pointed when he learns that the varieties of 

 fruit upon it are a more important considera- 

 tion than the number of tree s. This season, 

 for example, the Astracan apple has been a 

 complete glut in our Canadian market, and 

 being too tender for foreign shipment with- 

 out great risk, it has sold at such low prices 

 as to leave the grower a loss of money after 

 labor, packages, freight, commission, etc. , 



has been paid for ; a similar statement may 

 be made of the whole list of early clingstone 

 peaches, such as Alexander, Hale, Rivers 

 and Triumph. Fancy 10 and 15 cents a bas- 

 ket out of which to pay all expenses ! What 

 is left we ask for the grower? Nobody 

 wants such rubbish. But as soon as we be- 

 gin harvesting a fine yellow freestone, such 

 as Yellow St. John we find a demand at 75 

 to 80 cents a basket, and we feel encour- 

 aged at once. 



We mention this to show the great im- 

 portance to the intending fruit grower when 



