PEACHES IN EASTERN NEW YORK 



PERCY L. HUESTED 

 Fruit Grower and Nurseryman, Blauvelt, Rockland County, N. Y. 



In Eastern New York today more peaches are grown than 

 were grown twenty-five years ago, but not better peaches. The 

 fine-flavored peaches of the Persian type have practically been 

 dropped from the planters' lists, and Wheatland, Globe, Melaca- 

 toon, Crawfords, and Reeves Favorite are set no more except in 

 home gardens. Delicate peaches of the Early Rivers and Horton 



FIG. 329. Yorxo PEACHES TIIRIVIXCJ ox SOIL OF SLATE ROCK, ORCHARD OF 

 PERCY L. HUESTED, BLAUVELT, N. Y. 



Rivers type are also gone. The old varieties are not dropped 

 because of their quality, however, but because growers found 

 that far larger yields per acre were more, profitable, and other 

 varieties were more frost-proof, and because all fruit dealers insist 

 that a quality of the Elberta level is high enough. What the fruit 

 trade likes is a peach of good appearance, fair size, and good 

 keeping quality. 



Elberta has the lead in the plantings because of its good yields, 

 large size, and regular cropping habit. No peach makes more 



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