DESCRIPTIONS OF POPULAR PEACHES 247 



is a fine succession of mid-season peaches suitable either for canning, 

 drying, or distant shipment. Such a selection can be made from the 

 tables and descriptions which will be given later. 



Color is a most important item in the peach. While canners and 

 Eastern shippers use the beautiful white peaches to advantage, the 

 fashion for canning and drying is now strong in support of the yellow- 

 fleshed clingstone varieties. The yellow freestone peaches are also in 

 greatest demand. The color about the pit is also an important point. 

 Canners demand a peach, whether white or yellow, which is almost 

 free from color at the pit, because the extraction of the red color dyes 

 the juice; in drying, the demand just now is for a yellow peach with a 

 red center, because the colors give the dried fruit a more attractive 

 appearance. Of course there is a market for dried white peaches but 

 the preference is for the yellow. 



PEACHES APPROVED IN CALIFORNIA 



The following are the peaches chiefly grown in California, arranged 

 approximately in the order of ripening: 



Briggs' Red May (California). Originated as a chance seedling in nursery 

 row, on the farm of John G. Briggs, on the Feather River, about one mile from 

 Yuba City, about 1870. It was found to be about ten days earlier than the Early 

 Tillotson, which was then the stand-by for an early peach. Fruit medium to 

 large, round; white skin, with rich, red cheek; partially free, a standard errly 

 variety; subject to mildew. 



Jones' Large Early (New York). Large, roundish, flattened, white with 

 deep crimson. 



Alexander (Illinois). Most widely grown as best early variety. Fruit 

 medium to large; greenish white, nearly covered with deep red; flesh firm, juicy, 

 and sweet; bears transportation well; pit is partly free. 



Triumph (Georgia). Medium sized, early, yellow, partial cling; very good. 



Amsden (Missouri). Resembles preceding, but averages smaller; claimed by 

 some to be slightly earlier; rather less liable to curl-leaf. 



Honey (Lukens). Medium, oblong pointed, white mottled carmine; very 

 sweet; related to Peen-to. 



Peen-to. Flat peach or saucer peach of China; good in Southern California. 



Early Imperial (California). Originated by W. W. Smith, Vacaville, and 

 planted to secure a yellow freestone earlier or larger than St. John. Most 

 growers find it no improvement on St. John. 



Yellow St. John (New Orleans). Earliest yellow peach; averages smaller 

 than Yellow Crawford, but classed as large; roundish, orange yellow with deep 

 red heek; juicy, sweet and high flavored; freestone. 



Hole's Early (Ohio). Medium to large, nearly round; skin greenish, mostly 

 covered and mottled with red when ripe; flesh white, melting, juicy, rich and 

 sweet ; fair for local market and shipping ; widely grown ; freestone. 



Strawberry (New Jersey). Medium size, oval; stem cavity deeply sunk; 

 suture extending half way round; skin almost wholly marbled with deep red; 

 flesh whitish, juicy, rich and delicate; tree healthy. 



Bergen' s Yellow (New York). Large, roundish; suture deep; orange yellow, 

 red cheek ; approved in Southern California. 



Foster (Massachusetts). Uniformly large, slightly flattened; slight suture; 

 stem moderately depressed; flesh yellow, very rich and juicy; color deep orange, 



