THE 



Canadian Horticuuurist 



NOVEMBER, 1903 



Volume XXVI 



Number ii 



THE GAEFIELD PEACH 



(brigdon.) 



A fine yellow-fleshed peach of about 

 same season as Early Crawford. 



Origin : New York State. 



Tree: Vigorous, moderately productive. 



Fruit: Roundish, ovate; size large, 2]/? 

 X 2.y2 inches; average weight, 5 ounces; 

 color, yellow with red cheek ; suture 

 marked; stone free. 



Flesh : Yellow ; texture tendei and 

 juicy; flavor rich and excellent. 



Quality: Cooking, very good; dessert, 

 very good. 



\'alue : 



Season 

 loth. 



Market very good. 

 August 25th to 



September 



Mr. W. VV. Hillborn, our peach experimenter in 

 ihe County of Essex, writes : 



The Garfield Peach is of the Early Crawford 

 type, perhaps a little more highly colored, ripens a 

 little earlier, fruit bud more hardy, therefore more 

 regular crops are obtained of it than of the above 

 named variety. I would plant it in preference to 

 Early Crawford for either home use or market, as 

 It has proved equal in every respect and superior 

 m some soints to that old standard variety. I 

 have fr lited it for some years and consider it one 

 of the best market sorts grown. 



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November is as early as the fruit farmer 

 can find timie for the Thanksgiving holiday, 

 for his apples and his grapes keep him busy 

 every hour during the month of October. 



Pruning may be commenced this month 

 as soon as the leaves have fallen. The work 

 is much more important than is commonly 

 supposed, and much finer fruit would result 

 if more time and attention were given to 

 pruning and cutting back our fruit trees and 

 vines. 



The Mummy Fruit on plum trees should 

 be gathered and burned, because it contains 

 the spores for propagating the fungus for 

 the coming year. 



Mice must be guarded against, especially 

 in young orchards. In plots where clean 

 cultivation is given, the trees are quite safe, 

 but, if grass or other rubbish is about the 

 trees, their destruction is almost certain 

 when the heavy snowfalls come. A simple 

 protection is a mound of fine earth packed 



