PLANT IMPROVED VARIETIES FOR GREATER PRODUCTION AND PROFIT 
REDHA VEN «@ 
IT IS A PEACH ALL GROWERS SHOULD WATCH AND MAKE TRIAL PLANTINGS AS A 
COMMERCIAL PEACH TO PRECEDE THE GOLDEN JUBILEE AND HALEHAVEN 
Grower Reports From The Ceniral And Northern Areas Place Redhaven Among 
The Best For Its Season. 
Beautiiul Color — Firmness — High Quality 
Plus Good Consumer Demand Add Popularity For This Fine Peach. 
REDHAVEN is a ecross between Halehaven and 
Kalhaven. We first observed this variety in 1939 and 
had our first fruits here in our test orchards in 
1941. It eolors a brilliant red and beatuiful yellow. 
Skin is smooth, almost fuzless, resembling J. H. Hale 
in color, skin and flesh. Flesh is very firm. ‘Tree 
is vigorous with heavy bud set and bears young. 
Fruits medium sized and well filled when ready to 
pick, suture being rather prominent until peach ap- 
proaches picking period. Growers may be inclined to 
pick too early because of good color and should watch 
this and when tree 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 tem- 
peratures. 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 required thinning. It was again very dry 
in this section during the growing and ripening sea- 
son and this tree with a full crop did not size its 
fruit satisfactory, however, the fruits were attrac- 
tiess firm and of good quality. The younger tree 
bearing its first fruits naturally did not set such a 
heavy crop and was more vigorous and the fruits on 
this tree sized up well being 214”) and were beautiful 
specimens. It seems to be definitely a few days later 
than Fisher and the flesh is flecked considerably with 
red, however, is more firm and gives indication of being 
a good commercial peach to ripen before Golden Jub- 
ilee. We recommend applying fertilizer in early Novem- 
ber or very early Spring on these early ripening types 
to help the early development of the fruits, also 
thinning should be practiced on Redhaven and Fisher 
when a heavy crop is set. 
DIXIGEM (b) 
A worthy companion of the Redhaven. 
peach seascn with this 
Will ship anywhere. 
Step-up your 
fine early freestone variety. 
Our observations and reports for 1949 season indi- 
cate Dixigem will do well in most northern locations. 
Orchardists who fruited it this past season are very 
enthusiastic about its fine color, good size and remark- 
able tirmness when tree ripe. 
The DIXIGEM ripens several days ahead of the 
Golden Jubilee or about with Early Rose, Fisher and 
Redhaven. The fruit is medium size, ovate with light 
pubescence and a bright, attractive red blush covering 
about half the surface. The ground eolor is a bright 
yellow. The fiesh is yellow, medium to firm, having 
fine texture and excellent flavor. It is almost a free- 
stone when fully ripe and is usually semi-free at 
shipping stage. 
The trees of Dixigem have been vigorous and pro- 
ductive, sometimes requiring thinning of fruit, but 
generally do not tend to overbear. While Dixigem 
has mostly been fruited in Georgia and other nearby 
southern states, its characteristics of early ripening 
Season, good size, near freestone, high quality, at- 
tractive appearance and good tree growth, recom- 
mend it for trial as an early yellow shipping variety 
for all peach growing sections. It shows possibilities 
of stepping up our yellow peach season with a good 
commercial variety. 
NOTE: DIXIGEM—Trees available on Nematode Re- 
sistant Root Stock. §$.10 extra per tree. See Page 20. 
Words from An Old Friend 
Vineland, N. J. 
Dear Sirs: 
Received your trees and found them in good order. 
Yours truly, 
A. Vannini & Sons 
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A sectional view of our sweet cherry block growing 
during mid-summer showing vigorous, heavy bodied 
trees, many of them over 6 feet high. Stock like this 
is always dependable. 
JERSEYLAND ©) 
A NEW EARLY VARIETY TO PRECEDE 
GOLDEN JUBILEE 
Introduced by the N. J. Peach Council as an early 
large, firm, attractive yellow-fleshed freestone ripening 
a few days before Golden Jubilee. It hangs well to the 
tree and is an excellent shipper. Tree is hardy, sets fruit 
buds freely and comes into bearing early. Recommend- 
ed for trial in sections where peaches are profitable. 
Tree supply very limited. 
THE FISHER PEACH 
U. S. Plant Pat. No. 233 
The FISHER peach was discovered as a bud sport 
of the VALIANT in August 1934, near Queenstown, 
Ontario, 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. 
Quality above average, however the skin and flesh 
texture of the Fisher peach are such that we don’t 
believe it should be planted heavily for shipment to 
markets 800 or more miles distant. Again we recom- 
mend 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 most satisfactory varieties to precede the 
Golden Jubilee peach. 
