THE CHASE NUKSEBIES. 
A FEW HARDY PEACHES. 
Those who have watched the peach market the past few years have noticed 
that there are a few sorts of peaches that always fetch good prices. 
1st. Those tliat come into the market (he earliest. Those varieties that get in 
ahead of the glut are always sure to bring paying prices, although the size and 
quality of the fruit may not be superior. 
2nd. No matter how great the glut may be, where a variety is brought in pos- 
sessing extra fine form, beautiful color and large size, it will always sell:— sell 
quickly, and sell at a good round figure. 
3rd. The sorts that are brought in late in the season, those varieties that come 
after the usual rush of peaches is over, and that can be handled like apples, and 
if not marketed one day come out in good condition the second, always pay the 
grower handsome returns. 
The orchardist, in addition to the above points, has discovered that certain 
varieties, as a rule, will produce fruit the off years: that in seasons when the peach 
crop was pronounced "ruined" by unfavorable weather, there has been for the 
past few years, certain sorts that appeared to be about as plenty as the same 
varieties are in the glutted season. In short, some sorts that, like the Duchess of 
Oldenburgh apple, will produce good crops under the most adverse circumstances. 
Such peaches of course cannot fail to yield handsome returns, so that in making 
up a selection for an orchard, the shrewd and intelligent planter, in order not to 
bave all his eggs in one basket, will now. select an assortment, viz: — some the 
earliest, some of those sorts that are superior in size, form and color, others that 
ripen late, and still others that are pretty sure to bear in unfavorable seasons. If 
of the second class named above (those of superior size, color, &c.) he can find 
varieties that have proved uniformly hardy and fruitful, he is noubjy fortunate. 
Below we name a few varieties that have been most thoroughly tesxad, and com- 
ply with the above requirements. 
Our salesmen are furnished with colored engravings of the following varieties, 
drawn from nature, and will cheerfully exhibit the same to those who are inter- 
ested in peach culture. By giving your orders to our authorized salesmen, you 
■can be insured of the delivery of the trees on your premises, or at your nearest rail 
road station in good order, and getting stock true to riame. We olTcr only extra 
selected stock, grown in the best possible manner, and propagated by budding on 
healthy seedlings grown from mountain pits. When proper care is exercised in 
the selection of right varieties and of stock grown in a manner that insures a 
healthy, productive and long lived tree, the peach is one of the most profitable 
fruits that can be grown, and one that brings back the money invested in the 
shortest possible time. From among a large number of varieties, we liave selected 
these as those that in our opinion possess the greatest number of desirable qualities. 
They are of Northern and English origin, and we are confident they will prove 
as hardy, healthy and productive, as the seedlings of our grandfather's day, when 
there were no "off years.' 
