Cl]e Canabmn Portimltebt 



VOL. III.] JUNE, 1880. [No. 6. 



THE LIOST PROFITABLE VARIETIES OF PEACHES, NEW 

 AND OLD, FOR PLANTING IN THE GRIMSBY SECTION, 



BY L. WOOLVERTOX, GRIMSBY, OXT. 



Asa matter of course I will place the Early Crawford first among 

 the most profitable varieties of peaches. More money may be made 

 some years from very early or very late kinds, but the best variety of 

 any fruit, other things being equal, is always the most profitable in 

 the long run. I venture to say that you can place ten bushels of 

 Early Crawfords in any town or village in Canada to one of any other 

 kind. If growers were to plant as heavily of either the late or early 

 kinds as they do of the Early Crawford the glut would be shocking to 

 think about. I say Early Crawford, but I think. this is a misnomer 

 now-a-days, for since the introduction of so many earlier kinds, it 

 occupies neither an early nor a late place, but the very middle of the 

 sea.son. 



The second place for profit I give to the Old Mixox Free Stone, 

 a very old, but a very deserving variety. Its qualities are equal to 

 those of the Crawford, indeed it is almost perfection in points of flavor 

 and appearance. It just succeeds the Crawford, and comes in so 

 welcome to a grower after his hurry and excitement with his Crawfords. 

 Those hot September days ripen up the latter variety so fast that it is 

 almost an overwhelming task to get them picked, packed and marketed 

 fast enough. Just then, when Crawfords are over-ripe for shipping, it 

 is a pleasure to fall back upon the firm, beautiful Mixon, and find that 

 it will command the top price in the market. It has no compeer. It 

 does not begin l^earing very young, but it outlives almost any other 

 kind, and the older it gets the better crop it yields- 

 Third in order of peaches for profit in this section I would place 

 the Early Purple. I am aware that some will differ from me in this, 



