The Nation's Greatest Early Commercial Peach! 



ERLY-RED-FRE 



PLANT 



bountiful Riage-Grown 



EBLY-RED-FRE 



r. S. PLANT PAT. 320 



The Fruit Is: 

 Large Size 

 Wliite Flesh 

 Freestone 

 Higlily Colored 

 Finest Quality 

 Disease Resistant 

 Good Sliipper 

 A Money Maker 



A PATENTED VARIETY 



INTRODUCED, GROWN AND 



SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY 



BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES 



PLANT 



EBLY-RED-FRE 



U. S. PLANT PAT. 320 



The Tree Is: 

 Thrifty Grower 

 Disease Resistant 

 Hardy In Wood 

 Hardy In Bud 

 Early Bearer 

 Heavy Producer 

 Self Fertile 

 Universally AdaptaWe 



"MOTHER NATURE'S GIFT TO THE PEACH WORLD' 



Producing orchards from Texas to Canada and from Maryland to the State of Wasliington prove the 

 Universal adaptability of the Erly-Red-Fre. 



In all our experience as Nurserymen and Horticulturists, never have we seen a new peach with such 

 wide adaptability and prove so miiversally satisfactory to grower and consumer excepting possibly the fam- 

 ous Elberta. 



The ERLY-RED-FRE ripens uniformly, does not sliow 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 closely 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 at- 

 tention 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 clear white through to the 

 pit. We believe this peach has one of the smallest pits of any cultivated peach we know of in existence. The fruit av- 

 erages 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. 



Observations On Chilling Requirements 



The winter of 1949-1950 treated the peach growers in our southern peach districts to more of the same warm weather 

 conditions experienced in 1948-49. 



From these two years further light on the rest requirements for various varieties have been carefully noted. All va- 

 rieties with chilling requirements of more than 900 hours for leaf buds seemed to bloom more or less normally but 

 over much longer period, but the leaf bud recovery was at great variance due to variation of seasonal temperatures and 

 moisture conditions. 



We are concerned here with the behavior of the Erly-Red-Fre under Georgia and far southern conditions wherein 

 the variety suffered from incomplete dormancy. W4iile the tree bloomed erratic, yet they set their fruit normally and 

 the leaf buds followed slowly but developed "rapidly after starting and produced a crop of fruit from blossoms not 

 killed by the late frosts experienced later in many sections of the south. 



Many other early varieties showed poorly or not at all in comparison with the Erly-Red-Fre. 



Two years of abnormal weather conditions has proved definitely to the growers in all locations that they can grow 

 Erly-Red-Fre very successfully throughout the great southern peach belts. 



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