U. S. riant Patent No. 320 



INTRODUCED, GKOWxN AND FOR SALE EXCLUSIVELY BY BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES 



AMERICA'S EARLIEST FREESTONE PEACH 



THE GREATEST EARLY COMMERCIAL WHITE FLESHED PEACH OF ALL TIME! 

 "STANDS WITHOUT AN EQUAL, FOR ITS SEASON" 



The Fruit Is: 

 Large Size 

 White Flesh 

 Freestone 

 Highly Colored 

 Finest Quality 

 Disease Resistant 

 Good Shipper 

 A Money Maker 



The Tree Is: 

 Thrifty Grower 

 Disease Resistant 

 Hardy In Wood 

 Hardy In Bud 

 Early Bearer 

 Heavy Producer 

 Self Fertile 

 Universally Adaptable 



I ERLY-BED-FRE-FRUITS 



RIPENS WITH BED BIRD; 3 TO 4 WEEKS BEFORE GOLDEN JUBILEE 

 6 TO 7 WEEKS BEFOBE EEBERTA — 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. 



Market reports for season 1946 showed Erly-Red-Fre outsold all other varieties of peaches, bringing 

 top prices when other varieties sold for much less. 



TREE REQUIRES (under definite tests) LESS REST 

 PERIOD THAN ELBERTA. GEORGIA AND OTHER 

 FAR SOUTHERN STATES CAN PLANT ERLY-RED- 

 FRE KNOWING THEY WILL HAVE REGULAR, 

 HEAVY PRODUCTION. 



THE ERLY-RED-FRE GIVES PROMISE OP "A 

 NEW HOPE" IN THE EARLY PEACH INDUSTRY 

 TROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA. 



The ERLY-RED-FRE ripens uniformly, does not show 

 bruises readily and will keep and ship better than EL- 

 BERTA. 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. 



Fruits of Erly-Re4-Fre shipped 2000 miles or 

 more by Express arrived in Perfect Condition. 



We have never in all our experience as Nursery- 

 men and Horticulturists seen a new peach with 

 such wide adaptability and prove so universally 

 satisfactory to grower and consumer excepting pos- 

 sibly the famous Elberta. 



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 creamy white background. 

 The skin is tough and mediuni 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 of comparative size. 

 Tlie peach averages large for an early peach, some spec- 

 imens weighing 12 ounces and the entire crop under 

 normal conditions and care 

 can be packed out 2^" and PLANT 



up if desired. The tree is very 

 vigorous, resistant to Bacter- 

 iosis, bears while very young. 



NOTE — This variety is pro- 

 tected by U. S. Plant Patent 

 and cannot be propog-ated by 

 anyone other than Bountiful 

 Ridge Nurseries. 



j5ountifullUd9e.Gro,;„ 



EBLY-RED-FRE 



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