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Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol XV. 



1892 



No. 12. 



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THE WHEATLAXI) I'EACH. 



HE readers of our journal are not to suppose that every fruit 

 pictured and described in this journal is commended as being 

 valuable for the commercial peach orchard. The object is to 

 make known to all Canadian growers those new or old varieties 

 which appear desirable, and which need more general testing in 

 order to know their adaptability to the various parts of our 

 country. 



The Wheatland is a new peach which freciuently comes 

 under notice at fairs, and ripens at a time when a good yellow 

 flesh peach is needed, just after the Early Crawford. 

 The variety originated near Rochester, X.Y., with Mr. D. S. Rogers. He 

 grows a great number of varieties, but of them all he considers the Wheatland 

 the finest. The following is a description of the Wheatland peach : Fruit 

 is large, roundish ; skin golden yellow, shaded with crimson on the sunny side : 

 flesh yellow, firm, juicy, sweet, and of fine cjuality ; tree vigorous and healthy. 

 Our colored plate of this peach is rather too highly colored for the average 

 samples. Its behaviour, too, does not seem to be uniform in all localities, for 

 Mr. A. M. Smith, of St. Catharines, says he has trees six years planted that have 

 never yielded him a half-dozen peache.s, and he considers it a very poor bearer. 

 Mr. E. McArdle, a peach grower in St. Catharines, writes us as follows 

 with reference to the Wheatland peach : " My own experience with the Wheat- 

 land is very limited, but others tell me that this variety is a very shy bearer. 

 AVe planted very few of them, only twenty-five Wheatland in an orchard of two 

 thousand trees. I consider the peach a very fine one in appeaiance, and of 

 good quality, although not very highly colored." We shall be pleased to receive 

 for publication the experience of other peach growers. 



