Plant Improved Varieties for Greater Production and Profit 



REDHAVEN (5) 



It looks like another 

 "GREAT COMMERCIAL PEACH FROM SOUTH 

 HAVEN EXPERI3IEXT 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 

 peaches. REDHAVEN is a cross between Halehaven and 

 Kalhaven. We first observed this variety in 1939 and 

 had our first fruits here in our test orchards in 1941. 

 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. 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 approaches picking period. Grow- 

 ers 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 OI R 

 TEST ORCHARDS NEAR PRINCESS ANNE SHOW 

 THAT THE REDHAVEN will stand low temperatures. 

 Early January temperatures of 13 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 na- 

 turally did not set such a heavy crop and was more vig- 

 orous and the fruits on this tree sized well being 2i/4" 

 and were beautiful specimens. It seems to be de- 

 finitely 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 Gulden Jubilee. We recommend applying 

 fertilizer in early November or very early Spring on 

 these early ripening types to help the early development 



PRICES OF REDHAVEN SAME AS OTHER 



Mr. George AVurst, Sewell, N. J., and a Erly-Red-Fre 

 tree in its third grrowing 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 

 194.3 crop air. Wurst states: "Due to very cold spring 

 and late frosts my peach crop was light. Erly-Red-Fre 

 sold for good prices bringing $3.50 per Vz bushel for U.S. 

 No. 1 and $3.25 for No. 2's. Erly-Red-Fre leads the 

 price field on early fruits." 



of the fruits, also thinning should be practiced on Red- 

 haven and Fisher when a heavy crop is set. 



IT IS A PEACH ALL GROWERS SHOULD WATCH 

 AND aiAKE TRIAL PLANTINGS OF AS A COMMERC- 

 IAL PEACH TO PRECEDE THE GOLDEN JUBILEE 

 AND HALEHAVEN. 



STANDARD VARIETIES LISTED ON PAGE 14 



The FISHER Pe«ch 



US: 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 Peath 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, 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. Realizing the commerc- 

 ial possibilities of a peach of this type and season, Mr 

 Fisher's next concern Avas whether the fruit would carry 

 through to succeeding generations. To test it as 

 quickly as possible he top worked a two year old Val- 

 iant tree with 12 buds from the Sport limb the first 

 week in September. 1934. The Parent limb again bore 

 a heavy crop in 1935 and the peaches developed as they 

 did in 1934. The Parent limb repeated Avith a fine crop 

 in 1936 and the top worked tree set a crop which re- 

 quired thinning, the remaining peaches on the top 

 worked tree developed exactly as those on the Parent 

 limb. 



Observations of the FISHER PEACH on fruiting trees 

 in the TEST Orchards of the Bountiful Ridge Nur- 

 series 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 AFINE CROP 

 WHICH 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 super quality will establish the Fisher as 

 one of the best varieties yet introduced to precede the 

 Golden .Tubilee 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. 

 Prices are per tree. 



All prices are net f.o.b., Princess Anne, Maryland. 



Write for prices on larger quantities. 



NEW PRICES OX FISHER PEACH TREES 



1-9 

 Jumbo $2.75 



') to 6' 11/16 lip 1.75 



4 to 5'. 9-11 /16 1.50 



3 to 4", 7-9/16 1.25 



2 to 3', 5-7/16 1.10 



2 to 3', 1/4-5/16 1.00 



IS to 24 inches 80 



10-49 



50-299 



$2.35 



$1.75 



1.40 



.95 



. 1.20 



.80 



1.05 



.70 



.90 



.60 



.80 



.55 



.65 



.45 



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