FRUIT ^TOTE£ - August, 1925 



W. H. Thies 

 Extension Horticulturist 



Whicli_Varieties^pf Peaches Shall y.'e Plant? 



Sueaking on this subject before a group of Connecticut 

 fruit growers, A. J. Farley of Nev Jersey SE-.ys we have oiore good 

 nev varieties to renlace Carmen and other early peaches tnan ve 

 have to replace Elberta. For Nev/ Jersey he recoaimends the fol- 

 lovdng: Before mid-August - Cu::iberland and Golden Jubilee. Car- 

 men Season - Several nuuibered varieties. Hiley Season - Eclipse, 

 ?T. J. 87. Belle Season - N. J. 94. A series of good, yellov;, 

 freestone peaches is nov available starting with Golden Jubilee, 

 and ending with Elberta. Professor Farley believes the New 

 England grower will do well to grov varieties earlier than El- 

 berta because the consumer has had enough southern peaches of 

 that variety, only partially mature, by the time our Elbertas 

 are ready to harvest. 



An attempt s;.ould be made to reduce our list of peach 

 varieties. There are so many new varieties being propagated, 

 and le?f identification is so troublesome as to make as much 

 difficulty vith misnamed peaches in the future as we have had 

 with apples in the psst. Golden Jubilee, for example, is being 

 v.Tongly described in some catalogs. Cumberland and Pioneer are 

 now mixed In the nursery. They are easily distinguishable only 

 when in bloom. The former has a large blossom and the latter a . 

 small ;ine. At least tv-o different varieties have been sold as 

 South Kaven. 



Ve can't expect 9ny peach variety to stand a temperature 

 of 20° to 25°. ^:o varieties came through with a crop in Nev; 

 Jersey last winter. Many of our new varieties contain Elberta 

 or Hile blood and so are no more hardy than the parent varieties. 

 An immense number of peach pits have been nlanted by nurserymen. 

 This means that there v.ill be plenty of peach trees available in 

 the spring of 1957, although the supply next spring will be rather 

 short . 



New Developme nts in G rov/ing S mall Fr uits 



In Oregon, according to G. F. Darrov of the U.S.D.A., 

 strawberries have been severely injured by a sudden drop in 

 temperature in the fall, while a gradual decline in temperature 

 resulted in hardening so that no injury resulted. It vas also 

 found that plants growing on a wet soil were more subject to 

 vdnter injury than plants on a drier soil. Early mulching (by 

 November 12) in Visconsin resulted in a heavy yield the next 

 season, but late mulching (by December 10), resulted in a 



