Plant Improved Varieties for Greater Production and Profit 
REDHAVEN (35) 
It looks like another 
“GREAT COMMERCIAL PEACH FROM SOUTH 
HAVEN EXPERIMENT STATION” 
BEAUTIFUL COLOR, YELLOW FLESHED, FREE- 
STONE, VERY FIRM, RIPENS 5 DAYS 
BEFORE GOLDEN JUBILEE 
We congratulate those at South Haven Station on re- 
leasing to the peach world another variety which has 
promise of becoming one of our great commercial peach- 
es. REDHAVEN is a cross between Halehaven and Kal- 
haven. We first observed this variety in 1939 and had 
our first fruits here in our test orchards last year. It 
colors a brilliant red and beautiful yellow. Skin is 
smooth, almost fuzzless, resembling J. H. Hale in color, 
skin and flesh. Flesh is very firm and fruits ripen un- 
iformly. Tree is very vigorous with heavy bud set and 
bears young. Fruits medium sized and well filled when 
ready to pick, suture being rather prominent until peach 
approaches picking period. Growers may be_ inclined 
to pick too early because of good color and should 
watch this and when trees set too heavy, thinning 
should be practiced to increase size of the fruits. Trees 
are proving satisfactory in test plantings over a wide 
area. 
1942 OBSERVATIONS of the REDHAVEN IN OUR 
TEST ORCHARDS NEAR PRINCESS ANNE SHOW 
THAT THE REDHAVEN will stand low temperatures. 
Early January temperatures of 18 degrees below zero 
almost wiped out some varieties, while REDHAVEN 
set a full crop. The older tree set very heavy and re- 
quired thinning. It was again very dry in this section 
during the growing and ripening season and this tree 
with a full crop did not size its fruits satisfactorily, 
however the fruits were attractive, firm and of good 
quality. The younger tree bearing its first fruits nat- 
urally did not set such a heavy crop and was more vig- 
orous and the fruits on this tree sized well being 244” 
and were beautiful specimens. It seems to be definitely 
a few days later than Fisher and the fleshed is flecked 
considerable with red, however is more firm and gives 
indication of being a good commercial peach to ripen 
before Golden Jubilee. We recommend applying fer- 
tilizer in Early November or very Early Spring on 
these Early ripening types to help the early develop- 
ment of the fruits, also thinning methods should be 
Mr. George Wurst, Sewell, N. J. and a Erly-Red-Fre 
tree in its third growing season. His planting of Erly- 
Red-Fre averaged % bushel to the tree their third 
growing season, the fruits bringing fancy prices. Mr. 
Wurst has made most of his planting since 1935 with 
Bountiful Ridge trees and it is a pleasure indeed to see 
how these orchards have developed. Reporting on his 
1943 crop Mr. Wurst states: “Due to very cold spring 
and late frosts my peach was light. Erly-Red-Fre sold 
for good prices bringing $3.50 per % bushel for U.S. 
No. 1 and $3.25 for No. 2’s. Erly-Red-Fre leads the 
price field on early fruits” 
practiced on Redhaven and Fisher when a heavy crop 
is set. 
IT IS A PEACH ALL GROWERS SHOULD WATCH 
AND MAKE TRIAL PLANTINGS OF AS A COMMER- 
CIAL PEACH TO PRECEDE THE GOLDEN JUBILEE 
AND HALEHAVEN. 
PRICES OF REDHAVEN SAME AS OTHER STANDARD VARIETIES LISTED ON PAGE 14. 
the FISHER Peach 
U.S. PLANT PAT. NO. 233 
The Fisher Peach Is Hardy 
—Medium to Large Size— 
Highly Colored With Hand- 
some Appearance, Superb 
Quality. 
Growers In All Peach Areas Can Realize Its Possibilities. Step Up Your Yellow Peach Season by 
Planting Fisher Peach Trees This Year. 
Ripens 5 to 10 Days Before Golden Jubilee. 
SEE COLOR ILLUSTRATION OF THE FISHER PEACH ON COVER PAGES 
HISTORY OF THE FISHER PEACH 
The FISHER peach was discovered as a bud sport of 
the VALIANT in August 1934 near Queenston, Ontar- 
io, Canada. Mr. Fisher found these large, well formed 
peaches growing on a single limb of a Valiant tree in 
his orchard, being attracted to the peach from the fact 
that it was ripening fully 3 weeks before the Valiant 
peaches on the rest of the tree. Realizing the commer- 
cial possibilities of a peach of this type and season, Mr. 
Fisher’s next concern was whether the fruit would ecar- 
ry through to succeeding generations. To test it as 
quickly as possible he top worked a two year old Val- 
lant tree with 12 buds from the Sport limb the first 
week in September, 19384. The Parent limb again bore 
a heavy crop in 1935 and the peaches developed as they 
did in 1934. The Parent limb repeated with a fine crop 
in 1936 and the top worked tree set a crop which re- 
quired thinning, the remaining peaches on the top 
wersed tree developed exactly as those on the Parent 
imb. - 
Observations of the FISHER PEACH on fruiting 
trees in the TEST Orchards of the Bountiful Ridge 
Nurseries near Princess Anne in 1942: 
Abnormally low temperatures during early January 
with three successive nights registering 8-13-11 degrees 
below zero gave the Fisher as well as all varieties in 
our test orchard a real test and we are glad to report 
the Fisher CAME THROUGH WITH A FINE CROP 
W HICH REQUIRED THINNING, while some of the 
more tender varieties were frozen out. Fruits developed 
well with definite lack of moisture during growing 
season and we harvested some handsome fruits. Qual- 
ity was above average, however the skin and flesh 
texture of the Fisher peach are such that we don’t be- 
lieve it should be planted heavily for shipment to mar- 
kets 800 or more miles distant. Again we recommend 
a well balanced fertilization program on this variety. 
It is inclined to stick to the pit under certain growing 
conditions and again our recommendation is that it be 
planted at 60 ft. or more elevation and in light gravel 
or shale soils for best success. 
Its Beautiful Color, large size and the clear yellow 
flesh and superb quality will establish the Fisher as 
one of the best varieties yet introduced to precede the 
Golden Jubilee peach. 
WARNING. The Fisher peach is a patented variety 
which cannot be propogated for any purpose by any- 
one other than the authorized growers and distributors. 
NEW PRICES ON FISHER PEACH TREES 
Prices given are per tree. 1-9 10-49 50-299 
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All prices are net f.o.b. Princess Anne., Md., unless 
on special quotations. 
Write for prices on larger quantities. 
NOTE: Redhaven and Fisher failed to fruit 1943 season. 
