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the country. The reports which come from 

 these different plantings have not confirmed 

 the expectations of the fruit-growing world. 

 It is true that it has made good in some situa- 

 tions, but unfortunately it has failed to meas- 

 ure up when planted in other places. In our 

 own orchards we planted about fifteen 

 hundred of the trees when they were first 

 offered to the public. They promptly gave 

 up the ghost and to-day I do not believe we 

 have a single tree growing. In a neighboring 

 orchard I know of a few trees that have lived 

 — that is about all. They have not made a 

 growth in any way comparable with other 

 varieties. In still other localities the tree is 

 reported as growing well, but does not equal 

 the Elberta in productiveness. In fact, all 

 the evidence available seems to point to the 

 fact that the variety is not so adaptable to 

 varying soil conditions as is the old Elberta. 

 Where it grows and bears abundantly there is 

 no doubt but that it will replace the old stand- 

 by, but as yet we do not know the limits of these 

 localities. 



Kalamazoo 



One of the best of the various peaches that 

 ripen in the Elberta season is the Kalamazoo, 

 a Michigan variety that has been grown to a 

 considerable extent in the last thirty or forty 

 years. In some sections it is almost as good 



