1062 THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



money for the growers, and none pleases the fruit trade better. 

 It marks the high tide of the peach supply and in "its season has 

 no real competitor. At long intervals the consumers mention 

 Morris White, Crawford, Old Mixon, Heath Cling, or some other 

 old favorite, but for the present-day grower and dealer alike the 

 ideal varieties would be a series of Elberta types covering the 

 season from beginning to end. On the introduction of Elberta, it 

 was promised that a new race of peaches would supply something 

 like this, but today few peaches match the Elberta with season 

 earlier or later. 



DESIRABLE VARIETIES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS 



The J. H. Hale is a new yellow peach fruiting just with El- 

 berta in 1915. It may displace Elberta or be a competitor for 

 first place in the midseason week. An earlier yellow peach is 

 lacking. The Wilma is another of the new varieties offered as 

 a new Elberta seedling with season a week later. 



The growers who do not feel that their entire plantings should 

 be Elberta because of the rush and lower prices consequent dur- 

 ing Elberta week, therefore plant a succession of varieties be- 

 ginning with Greensboro, which ripens in late July and early 

 August. Its size is large, its buds are hardy, and it does not rot 

 so rapidly as some of the extra early kinds do. 



Mayflower is still earlier, but suitable for home use only. 

 After Greensboro, the Waddell gives satisfaction as a home gar- 

 den white peach with most brilliant red skin. The growth is not 

 the most vigorous, and commercial growers have dropped it on 

 that account. 



Carman is a hardy peach most precocious in its bearing habit 

 and, while like all the early peaches it is a cling or semi-cling, 

 yet is in good demand, and its appearance has made it as many 

 friends in the market as its free bearing habit has on the farm. 

 Thinning and high feeding are essential with it. 



Heiley, or Early Belle, follows as a freestone peach with 

 tender skin and some liability to rot in wet seasons. 



Champion is larger, and when ripened on the trees none is 

 better in flavor. It bears heavily throughout a long period, and 



