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but it has always been a favorite peach of mine. .1 believe it is our 

 most hardy peach, often yielding a crop when others fail. Its season 

 is the last week in August, just connecting the ripening time of the 

 Hale's Early with that of the Crawford. It is a most regular and 

 abundant bearer, and its delicately tinted purplish cheek and luscious 

 flavor make it very popular as a dessert peach. Of course it is too 

 soft for shipping far, and therefore cannot be grown profitably in very 

 large quantities, for if you are a day behind in the picking you cannot 

 ship at all, but for all that, I would not yield its place for any other of 

 iits season. 



The fourth place I rather reluctantly give to Hale's Early. If it 

 would only get ripe without rotting, and not be so long about it, I 

 would put it third in order of profit, for when well ripened and fully 

 colored it has no rival in beauty of external appearance. To grow 

 this variety successfully the fruit needs careful thinning when it is 

 small, else the tree overbears, and the specimens are both small and 

 unsaleable. I received the enormous sum of $5.00 for twenty crates 

 of this variety shipped to Montreal during the past season. Then 

 again I have received the top price of the market for large, well-grown 

 and well-colored samples. 



Next in order among the old varieties for pro'fit I would place the 

 Smock. It is a free-stone peach and has a yellow flesh, but it has a 

 somewhat musky flavor, and often has a very dull colored skin; indeed 

 in unfavorable seasons it is almost worthless, and as soon as a better 

 peach ripening at the same period is introduced, we may cease to plant 

 the Smock. Nevertheless, it is an excellent bearer, and ripening as it 

 does about the first week in October, it has the monopoly of the peach 

 market. 



I believe I have now named my choice of five varieties for profit 

 among our old sorts. If I were required to give a more extended 

 list, I would add to these, as number six in order of merit, the Morris' 

 White. Tliis is the most popular of white peaches, and fills in a gap 

 between the Old Mixon and the Smock. The flesh is white to the 

 stone,, somewhat firm, but juicy, sweet and rich. It commands a 

 ■f eady market. 



I have passed over our Crawford's Late entirely. I have nothing 

 against its quality, which is little inferior to the Eerly Crawford, but 

 we are speaking of peaches for profit, and I do not fhink it deserves 



