VARIETIES OF PEACHES FOR CULTI- 

 VATION. 



Froin the great varieties of peaches recommend- 

 ed in the different peach growing districts of the 

 country, selections have been made of such as 

 have been found on trial as best adapted to the 

 different localities. 



In all such selections regard should be paid to 

 those combining the elements of good marketable 

 fruit, good keepers, healthy, large, fine color, and 

 of vast importance, to be good carriers, standing 

 safe transportation to market, and such as ripen 

 in regular succession from the earliest to the latest, 

 extending through the peach season from about 

 the middle of July to the middle or last of Octo- 

 ber, in a region near the city of Philadelphia. 



The following list contains the most of the lead- 

 ing varieties grown and fruited in the peach dis- 

 tricts of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, 

 and have for the most part been well adapted to 

 the Eastern and Western States. Many of the 

 kinds named have been standard varieties for the 

 last thirty to fifty years and over, and have not 

 been superceded in their good qualities as paying 

 market fruits. Others have been introduced with- 



