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GAKDEXISG FOR THE SOUTH. 



last ripening is about two inches in diameter. A supply 

 of fruit may, therefore, be secured from the same tree for 

 nearly three months in succession. 



" We do not recommend the Everbearing Peach for 

 commercial orchards, but for family use, or small gar- 

 dens, where there is room for only a few trees, its value 

 is unquestionable. We offer it with confidence, as we 

 have known the original tree for the past three years, and 



Fig. 226— Bidwell Early Peach. (Div. Pomology, U. S. Dept. Agri.) 



gathered the fruit in its various stages of development." 

 (Berckmans.) 



The following additional varieties are popular in some 

 sections of the South: 



Amelia, 

 Bidwell Late, 

 Bidwell Early, 

 Beer's Smock, 

 Kerr (Jessie), 



General Lee, 

 Mountain Rose, 

 Onderdonk, 

 Sneed, 

 St. John, 



Waldo. 



