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RHPORT ON THE 



No. 24- 



EARLY MICHIGAN. 



Early Michigan 



Flesh : greenish white, red at pit ; textuif 

 tender and juicy ; flavor, subacid, very 

 pleasant. 



Ql'alitv : deesert very good. 



Value ; market second class. 



Seaso.x : middle of August. 



A very good dessert peach. 



Origin : Georgia. 



Tree : healthy, vigorous and productive. 



Fruit : medium size, wide, form round ; 

 color, cream or greenish white ground nearly 

 covered with crimson ; cavity, large and 

 deep ; suture very distinct from cavity to 

 apex and beyond ; pit a clingstone. 



SecI1I)\ (II F VRLY MlCHK, v\ 



eai:ly purple. 



For home use, as a dessert peach, this is one of the best of its season. Between 1860 and 

 1S70 this varietv was grown as the earliest market jieach in Southern Ontario, but its extreme 

 tenderness of flesh and rapid softening after maturity led to its giving place to other varieties. 



Tree ; thriftv ; vigorous ; hardy ; fairly productive. 



Fruit : form, irregular, ovate, one-sided ; skin, bright red, downy ; basin deep ; stone 

 aluiost free. 



Flesh : greenish white in color ; texture, very tender, very juicy melting : flavor, sweet, 

 ■ich, agreeable. 



Quality : dessert very good ; cooking poor. 



Value ; near market third cla.ss ; distant market poor. 



Season : late August to early September. 



