The Nation's Greatest Early Commercial Peach! 
ERLY-RED-FRE 
PLANT A PATENTED VARIETY PLANT 
pee a) “Grown 
INTRODUCED, GROWN AND 
SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY 
BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES 
U.S] BEANTY PAW 320 
The Fruit Is: 
Large Size 
White Flesh 
Freestone 
Highly Colored 
Finest Quality 
Disease Resistant 
Good Shipper 
A Money Maker 
U. S. PLANT PAT. 320 
The Tree Is: 
Thrifty Grower 
Disease Resistant 
Hardy In Wood 
Hardy In Bud 
Karly Bearer 
Heavy Producer 
Self Fertile 
Universally Adaptable 
ERLY-RED-FRE FRUITS 
“MOTHER NATURE’S GIFT TO THE PEACH WORLD” 
RIPENS WITH RED BIRD; 3 WEEKS BEFORE GOLDEN JUBILEE 
6 to 7 WEEKS BEFORE ELBERTA—SEE FRONT COVER FOR COLOR ILLUSTRATION 
Producing orchards from Texas to Canada and from Maryland to the State of Washington prove 
the Universal adaptability of the Erly-Red-Fre. 
We never in all our experience as Nurserymen and Horticulturists have seen a new peach with such 
wide adaptability and prove so universally satisfactory to grower and consumer excepting possibly the 
famous Elberta. 
The ERLY-RED-FRE ripens uniformly, does not show bruises readily and will keep and ship better than 
ELBERTA. It is definitely the first ripening freestone peach now in cultivation to our knowledge, following close- 
ly the Mayflower and preceding the Golden Jubilee by several weeks. 
The ERLY-RED-FRE originated as a chance seedling in the orchard of Wm. Perry near Chase City, Va. Our 
attention was first called to this splendid peach in 1935. The second generation trees bore in 1937 at 2 years of 
age, the fruits on these being identical with those on the Parent tree. The fruit is very highly colored with an 
attractive bright red on a creamy white background. The skin is tough and medium thick. The flesh of the 
peach is of such texture that it does not show bruises through the skin for several days after being bruised and 
is a clear white through to the pit. We believe this peach has one of the smallest pits of any cultivated peach we 
know of in existance. .-The fruit averages large for an early peach, some specimens weighing 12 ounces and the 
entire crop under normal conditions and care can be packed out 214” and up if desired. The tree is very vigorous, 
resistant to Bacteriosis, bears while very young. 
THE QUESTION OF REST REQUIREMENT 
Weather conditions experienced during the winter of 1948-49 throughout the southern peach districts make 
necessary a revaluation for the rest period on many peach varieties. 
All varieties with chilling requirements of more than 900 hours were very siow to bloom and set foliage. 
Observations show the time factor for leaf and blossom bud are at great variance, also the recovery period to 
full bloom or mature leaf is stepped up or retarded by variation of growing. season temperatures. While the 
Erly-Red-Fre like all other varieties in Georgia and other peach districts suffered from incomplete dormancy, yet 
the trees recovered and bore a partial crop and all trees assumed their normal cycle. All of this shows that 
the Erly-Red-Fre has a lesser cold demand than varieties like Early Rose - Uneeda - Dixired, some types of 
Elberta and others all of which fruited poorly or not at all. 
Knowing these facts the growers of early peaches who gives proper fertilization and cultivation program to 
his orchards can grow Erly-Red-Fre very successfully through the great Georgia peach belts. 
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