DESCRIPTIONS OF PEACHES 



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seedlings giving six months of peaches. Of course the very early 

 and very late sorts are only of use for marketing as table fruit. 

 The most important series is a fine succession of mid -season 

 peaches suitable either for canning, drying, or distant shipment. 

 Such a selection can be made from the tables and descriptions 

 which will be given later. 



Color is a most important item in the peach. While canners 

 and Eastern shippers use the beautiful white peaches to advantage, 

 the fashion for canning and drying is now strong in support of 

 the yellow-fleshed clingstone varieties. The yellow freestone 

 peaches are also in greatest demand. The color about the pit is 

 also an important point. Canners demand a peachj whether white 

 or yellow, which is almost free from color at the pit, because the 

 extraction of the red color dyes the juice; in drying, the demand 

 just now is for a yellow peach with a red center, because the colors 

 give the dried fruit a more attractive appearance. Of course there 

 is a market for. dried white peaches but the preference is for the 

 yellow. 



A succession of yellow freestones very popular in the San 

 Joaquin Valley is the following: Foster, Wheatland, Elberta, 

 Muir, Lovell, Late Crawford, Salway. A succession of yellow 

 clingstones is this : Tuskena, Seller's Runyon's, McDevitt's, Hen- 

 rietta, Phillips. The two most popular white clings in the same 

 region are McKevitt's and Heath. 



In the enumeration following the table only those seedlings, 

 which are now commercially propagated are included. Many 

 which were prominent ten years ago have been dropped by this 

 test. The writer has record of many others some of them likely 

 to rise to important place, which are reserved until after further 

 trial. 



The following are the peaches chiefly grown in California, 

 arranged approximately in the order of ripening: 



Brigg's Red May (California). Originated as a chance seedling in nursery 

 row, on the farm of John G. Briggs, on the Feather River, about one mile from 

 Yuba City, about 1870. It was found to be about ten days earlier than the 

 Early Tillotson, which was then the stand-by for an early peach. Fruit medium 

 to large, round; white skin with rich, red cheek; partially free, a standard 

 early variety; subject to mildew. 



Jones' Large Early (New York) .Large, roundish, flattened, white with 

 deep crimson. 



Alexander (Illionis). Most widely grown as best early variety. Fruit 

 medium to large; greenish white, nearly covered with deep red; flesh firm, 

 juicy, and sweet; bears transportation well; pit is partly free. 



Triumph (Georgia). Medium sized, early, yellow, partial cling, very good. 



Amsden (Missouri). Resembles preceding, but averages smaller; claimed by 

 some to be slightly earlier ; rather less liable to curl-leaf. 



Honey (Lukens). Medium, oblong pointed, white mottled carmine, very 

 sweet, related to Peen-to. 



