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both for home use and for market. They are still 

 much planted, especially the Early Crawford. Late 

 Crawford is used to some extent by planters, espe- 

 cially in New Jersey and Maryland. Their unques- 

 tionable high quality makes these varieties favor- 

 ites of the best customers. Housewives who are 

 in the habit of canning fancy peaches for home use 

 still insist on Crawfords, and rightly object when 

 Elbertas are offered as a substitute. On account of 

 this demand from discriminating customers, many 

 of whom are willing to pay a higher price for what 

 they want, the Crawfords are still grown by some of 

 the best peach men. 



Other varieties of secondary commercial impor- 

 tance which are still planted and which we could 

 not afford to discard are Oldmixon Free, a white 

 peach of the highest quality ; Reeves, a good yellow 

 sort, which has a considerable vogue in Delaware 

 and Maryland; Mountain Rose, which is still con- 

 siderably planted, although in most cases it might 

 be practicably supplanted by Greensboro and Car- 

 man; Salway, an old-fashioned sort still consider- 

 ably grown in New York, Michigan and Canada; 

 Smock, also frequently grown in New York and 

 Michigan, especially for home use; Fox, a good 

 white peach from New Jersey, which many growers 

 still fancy; Foster, a yellow peach of particularly 

 fine quality suitable for the home garden. 



If a list should be made on the basis of quality 

 with a view to providing the home garden with 

 those sorts which are the very best and which can 

 be produced only by devoted amateurs, this list 

 will certainly contain : Foster, Early Crawford, Late 

 Crawford, Champion, Oldmixon. To this list each 

 individual would be at liberty to add particular 

 varieties of his own preference or such as might be 



