NEW FRUITS IN 1879. 



A PAPER READ BEFORE THE WESTERN N. Y. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY AT 

 ROCHESTER, JANUARY 2QTH, l88o. 



Referring to my report* of last year on New Seedling Peaches, I suppose 

 the question will now be asked whether any of the many varieties then 

 enumerated and described have proved to be acquisitions. You are, of 

 course, aware that in so brief a period it is not possible to obtain much re- 

 liable information on matters of this character; but it gives me great 

 pleasure to furnish such facts as have been communicated to me, and I 

 hope that the list may serve in some degree to avert the confusion which 

 must necessarily arise from the introduction of so many new varieties at 

 one time. 



New Peaches. 



Relative to Beck with' S Early, which heads the list, we have nothing 

 new to report, as the tree did not produce any fruit the past season. 



Wyandotte Chief failed also to bear any fruit. Its history and descrip- 

 tion, as given in my last report, was incorrect. Mr. Kroh informs me that 

 it originated on the farm of Mr. Matthew Mudeater, near Wyandotte, Kan- 

 sas, and he describes it as a dark red free-stone, rich, juicy, and fine flavored. 

 Average specimens have measured eight and a half inches in circumference, 

 and in 1878 it ripened ten days in advance of Amsden. 



Bledsoe's Eariy Cling The severe winter of '78 injured the fruit buds. 

 Mr. Wood has changed its name to "Advance," and he describes it as a 

 delicious peach ; superior to Alexander or Amsden, and five to eight days 

 earlier. 



Respecting the Seedlings Nos. i and 2, raised by Jas. A. Storm, of Mis- 

 souri, I have not been able to obtain any new facts. 



Brice's Early June, according to reliable authority is remarkably early, 

 but Prof. Vandeman, of Geneva, Kansas, says that " Vandeman's Early " 

 is destined to excel it in many particulars. As this Seedling has not been 

 before described, I give the following description as sent to me by the 

 Professor : 



Vandeman's Early Originated by H. E. Vandeman, Geneva, Kansas, 

 and named Vandeman's Early by the Kansas State Horticultural Society, 

 bore its first crop in 1878, and ripened June i3th, the fruit measuring seven 

 to eight inches in circumference ; color bright purple and crimson on white 

 ground ; flesh white, adheres slightly to the stone ; in flavor equal to Male's. 

 Prof. Vandeman says that he has twenty other promising seedlings. In 

 that vicinity there are also the following seedlings, for the description of 

 which I am indebted to Mr, Vandeman ; 



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