HOW TO GROW AND MARKET FRUIT 



Mixon Free, Elberta, Stump the World, Crawford's Late, Fox's 

 Seedling and Chair's Choice. 



In Michigan, Gold Drop, Kalamazoo^ Smock and Salway 

 are great successes. Hill's Chili, Champion and Crosby are 

 among the most hardy, and do well far north. Another and 

 second-best list for anywhere east of the Mississippi river and 

 north of Louisiana, including the Atlantic Coast states, in 

 order of ripening, would be these: 



Mayflower, Greensboro and Hiley for first ripening; Mamie 

 Ross and Waddell for second; Slappy for third; Crawford's 

 Early and Cornet's, fourth; Captain Ede and Thurber, fifth; 

 Frances, Lemon Free, Niagara and Steven's Rare Ripe, sixth; 

 Geary's Hold-On, Smock and Wonderful, seventh; Ford's 

 Late White, Salway and Willett, eighth. 



Peaches of the seventh and eighth classes as listed are 

 adapted particularly to mountainous sections. All of the very 

 late kinds seem to thrive better on high land than on low. In 

 the mountains of western Maryland and eastern West Virginia, 

 Mountain Rose, Billyou's Late October and other similar kinds 

 reach great perfection, while they do little good in Delaware 

 and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In the same way, many of 

 the kinds which succeed best at the lower elevations practically 

 are failures on higher lands. Before you plant, talk to local 

 peach men, and learn what they have grown successfully and 

 unsuccessfully. 



Planting of different varieties within reach of one another 

 is not so important with peaches as with apples or pears, yet 

 it should be done. All peaches in any one neighborhood seem 

 to bloom at about the same time, regardless of when they 

 ripen fruit. It will not, therefore, be so necessary to guard 

 against the failure of early and late-blooming kinds to pollinate 

 each other, though it is well to avoid setting solid blocks of 

 one kind. Anything less than one hundred and fifty feet is a 

 safe distance to have varieties apart when you want them to 

 cross-fertilize. 



Peach trees and fruit are very susceptible to injury by 

 enemies; but, with the exception of against one or two troubles, 

 good spraying and other care will protect them almost com- 

 pletely. 



Brown Rot, or Manilla Rot is a fungus. It comes first in a 

 small brown-rotted area, which spreads rapidly, especially 

 during wet weather. These rotten places later become covered 

 with powdery white spores. Little Peach seems to be a relative 

 of yellows; the fruit grows to about half the normal size, and 

 stays green, sour and bitter until late. Peach Leaf Curl is 

 due to a fungus, which causes the leaves to curl, thicken, turn 

 brown and drop. 



Peach Rosette is another bacterial disease, something like 

 yellows. Shoots on affected trees grow in bunches and remain 

 short. Yellows is the disease for which we have no remedy but 

 the ax. It is not known that Yellows is caused by bacteria, but 

 this is thought to be the cause, and since the remedy is the same, 

 we include it in that class. Watch for the premature ripening 



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