PEACH VARIETIES 259 



popular naval hero. The fruit has yellow 

 flesh, and the skin is a beautiful red. 

 Although introduced as a freestone it fails in 

 that character in some sections, and for this 

 reason alone has been discarded by many 

 growers. The fruit is often undersized and 

 is subject to scab and to brown rot, both of 

 which make no appeal to the commercial man. 

 As a peach for home use where the financial 

 consideration does not enter into the equation it 

 is a good variety to plant as it is one of the 

 best of its season. 



Triumph is earlier than Admiral Dewey, in 

 fact one of the very first to ripen. It is also 

 yellow-fleshed and under some conditions is 

 a freestone. In our locality, however, the 

 flesh sticks tight to the stone. It is an extra 

 hardy variety and bears heavily almost every 

 year, but the fruit is of poor quality and is 

 characterized by the most remarkably fuzzy 

 skin of any peach that I know. At the present 

 high prices of fur the things might almost be 

 grown for their pelts, or as one writer suggested, 

 they should be shaved before being offered 

 for sale. 



Alton 



About twenty years ago Stark Brothers 

 introduced a new peach under the name of 

 Alton and it has since then become very 

 popular. The variety originated in Texas 



