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ever white flesh, and as it ripens in cool weather it can be shipped 

 well to any market. In many cases the trees do not bear heavily 

 when young, but its regular bearing habit has made the peach 

 very popular. 



Iron Mountain follows Stevens and lacks the good red color of 

 the latter. No peach is of better flavor when canned, and none 

 is a. more dependable bearer. It must be thinned to give size, 

 but will then yield white fruit, large to very large. 



Wlllett is a firm-fleshed, large yellow peach, ripening in early 

 October. It does not bear while young, but seems to be un- 

 e<pialed at its season for home use and commands a favorable 

 place in the markets. Its quality and wood growth are of the 

 Crawford order. 



During October the supply of yellow peaches is chiefly of Sal- 

 way, Smock, and Wonderful, all peaches that are firm and some- 

 what dry of flesh and not extra high in flavor. They yield a 

 heavy crop per acre, when well fertilized. 



Bray's Kareripe is preferred by many as a late peach, but the 

 tendency is to largely cut off the planting of extra late peaches in 

 eastern New York, since consumption falls off heavily after 

 October first. 



LOCATION AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS TO BE CONSIDERED 



The foregoing is written from the standpoint of a grower in 

 the most southern part of the Hudson Valley, where peach crops 

 have not failed for the past eleven years. There is much varia- 

 tion in the climate of eastern New York as regards temperature. 

 Further north' during this eleven-year period several crops have 

 been lost through the winterkilling of buds by severe midwinter 

 cold, and damage through the light frosts at blossom time has 

 also been frequent. Varieties particularly hardy with respect to 

 midwinter cold are Crosby, Hill's Chili, Carman, Salway, and 

 Stevens. 



The spring frosts at blossom time are the most damaging in the 

 southern states, but in New York these late frosts are of lesser im- 

 portance, and varieties that do not open all their blossoms at once 

 rarely lose a percentage of bloom large enough to affect the crop. 

 All the peaches of the class of Greensboro, Waddell, and Carman 



