PLANT EMPKOVED VARIETIES FOR GREATER PRODUCTION AND PROFIT 



REDHAVEN (s) 



IT IS A PEACH ALL GROWERS SHOULD WATCH AND MAKE TRLAL PLANTINGS AS A 

 COMMERCIAL PEACH TO PRECEDE THE GOLDEN JUBILEE AND HALEHAVEN 



Grower Reports From The Central And Northern Areas Place Redhaven Among 



The Best For Its Season. Beautiful Color — Firmness — High Quality 



Plus Good Consumer Demand Add Popularity For This Fine Peach. 



REDHAVEN is a cross between Halehaven and 

 Kalhaven. We first observed this variety in 1939 and 

 had our first fruits here in our test orcliards in 

 1941. It colors a brililant 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 ap- 

 proaches picking period. Growers may be inclined to 

 pick too earlj' 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 Dlantings over a wide area. 



1942 OBSERVATIONS OF THE REDHAVEN IN 

 OUR TEST ORCHARDS NEAR PRINCESS ANNE 

 SHOW THAT TflE REDHAVEN will stand low tem- 

 peratures. Early .January temperatures of 1.3 degrees 

 below zero almost wiped out some varieties, while 

 REDHAVEN set a full cron. 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- 

 tive, 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 2^4:" 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. 



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A sectional view of our 1 yr. pear trees growing 

 during: summer 1947 at Bountiful Bidge. Many trees 

 6 ft. high by Aug. 5th. Thrifty stock like this is 

 dependable. 



The FISHER Pe«ch 



U S. PLANT PAT. NO. 233 



The Fisher Peach Is Hardy 

 — Medium to Large Size — 

 Highly Colored With Hand- 

 some Appearance, Superb 

 Quality. 



Step Up Your Yellow Peach Season by Planting 

 Fisher Peach Trees This Year. Ripen 5 to 10 Days 

 Before Golden Jubilee. 



The FISHER peach was discovered as a bud sport 

 of the VALIANT in August 1984, near Queenstown. 

 Ontario, Canada. Mr. Fisiier found these large. Avell 

 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 

 groAving 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. 



WARNING: The Fisher Peach is a patented variety 

 which cannot be propagated for any purpose by any- 

 one other than the authorized growers and distributors. 



Prices same as other standard varieties on Page 17. 



DIXIGEM (3a) 



A worthy companion of the Kedhaven. Step-up your 

 peach season ^vith this fine early freestone variety. 



Will ship anywhere. Sold for Iiigli prices 1948 season. 

 We recommend it for trial. 



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 color is a bright 

 yellow. The flesh 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: DIXIGE3I— Trees available on Nematode Re- 

 sistant Root Stock. $.10 extra per tree. See Page 20. 



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