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crops erratically, and produces a significant percentage of fruit with a 

 rough, raised suture. The fruit and foliage are susceptible to bacterial 

 spot, a problem on trees grown in our South Jersey sandy soils. 



Loring and Jerseyqueen are both large, attractive, firm, yellow-fleshed 

 peaches. Both are strong vigorous trees. Jerseyqueen i: susceptible to 

 bacterial spot and matures late (August 2h to September }) . Loring is 

 tolerant to bacterial spot and matures mid season (August 10 to 20). Both 

 cultivars crop unreliably because of the fluctuating temperatures we 

 experience in mid winter and early spring. 



Cresthaven is a near-perfect peach. jf thinned early, it will attain 

 excellent size. The fruit have short stem^ and a round shape, making it 

 occasionally prone to softening and injury around the stem. The tree is an 

 excellent cropper but somewhat weak and shor lived. 



Most fruit growers are familiar with Redhaven. It has the 

 strengths and weaknesses in Ne / Jersey that it has in New England. 



same 



Now that you know what wf grow and tolerate in New Jersey, you can see 

 we need much improvement in )ur peach cultivars. Thousands of cultivars 

 have been field-tested in New Jersey in the past 200 years. Sixty cultivars 

 have been introduced by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station since 

 the establishment of its peach breeding program in 191^. Our primary objec- 

 tive today is to develop and evaluate large, high quality, attractive, later 

 maturing, new, firm, yellow-fleshed peach cultivars. Tree vigor, and most 

 importantly winter hardiness, and bacterial spot resistance, are primary 

 objectives. Encore"^ (NJ260 cultivar) is a late maturing cultivar (September 

 1 to 10) which best exemplifies these standards. Jerseydown (NJ2^6 culti- 

 var) and Jerseyglo (NJ2^^ cultivar) are other recent selections with 

 outstanding characteristics. The following yellow fleshed cultivars are 

 recommended to New Jersey growers as the best available in their respective 

 seasons of maturity. 



SEASON OF MATURITY 



CULTIVAR 



July 1 to 10 

 July 10 to 20 



CANDOR 



GARNET BEAUTY, EARLIGLo"^ 

 (Roxborough Cultivar), EARL I 

 REDHAVEN 



July 20 to 25 



July 2": to August 5 



August 1 to August 10 

 August 10 to August 20 

 August 20 to August 27 



JERSEYDAWN, HARBELLE 



REDHAVEN, HARKEN, HARBRITE, 

 LATE SUNHAVEN (Slaybaugh 

 Special cultivar) 



NEWHAVEN, NORMAN 



LORING, REDKIST 



BLAKE, BISCOE, CRESTHAVEN 



