THE CHASE NURSERIES, GENEVA. N. Y. 
PEACH growing is today a great industry. The ease with which these trees 
may be cultivated, their freedom from disease, the short period before they 
become productive, together with the immense demand for the fruit and the 
facility with which it may be shipped to markets, make Peach growing ex- 
tremely profitable. 
To secure healthy, vigorous and fruitful trees the ground must be kept 
clean and mellow, and should receive an occasional dressing of wood ashes. 
To keep the trees in good shape it is necessary that they should be pruned 
yearly, all the dead and useless wood cut out and light and air-let in. 
Admiral Dewey. — This is another triumph in 
the production of very early peaches; there is 
no knoown variety that can compare with it in 
all the qualities that go to make a desirable 
early market variety. Perfect freestone. 
Alexander's Early.— ( Alexander ) —Originated 
near Mt. Pulaski, 111. Medium size greenish 
white, nearly covered with rich red; flesh melt- 
ing, juicy, sweet; tree vigorous and productive; 
ripens two weeks earlier than Hale's Early. 
Amsden's .June. — (Amsden) — Originated at 
Carthage, Mo., in 1882. Medium size, skin 
greenish white, nearly covered with purple in 
the sun; ripens with the Alexander and closely 
resembles that variety, but some think it a 
little higher flavor. 
Barnard's Early. — A fine yellow peach of 
good quality; very popular in Michigan. An 
excellent canner. 
Beer's Smock. — Large to very large; yellow, 
with red cheek; flesh yellow and of the very 
best quality for the season; freestone; a reg- 
ular and enormous yielder. 
Belle of Georgia. — A very large, white 
fleshed peach of excellent flavor. Pit free. 
Skin is white with a red cheek. Tree is a 
rapid grower and very productive. A very 
showy peach when displayed for market. 
Ripens with Crawford Early. Sept 1st to 5th. 
Bokara, No. 3 — Seventy-five per cent hardier 
than any other peach. Imported by Professor 
Budd, from Bokara. 
Chinese Cling.— This type has of late years 
produced several improved seedlings, which, al- 
though not all attaining the enormous size of 
the original variety, are, however, of better 
flavor and less predisposed to decay, and of 
less straggling habit of growth. 
Carman. — A moderately early white fleshed 
variety said to be absolutely rot-proof. Fruit 
is large, round, pale yellow color with red 
cheek. Freestone. Tree is extremely hardy. 
August. 
Chair's Choice. — A very large deep yellow 
peach with red cheek. Has yellow flesh that 
is firm and of fine flavor. Pit is perfectly 
free. Tree is a strong grower and good 
bearer. Sipens just before Smock. October. 
Champion. — This variety may be classed as 
the best dessert peach of its season. White 
fleshed, sweet and delicious, but a little tender 
for distant shipping. The fruit grows very 
large, specimens often measuring ten inches 
in circumference. Tree is very hardy and 
productive; has stood 18 degrees below zero 
and produced a full crop the following sum- 
mer. Freestone and ripens last of August. 
Originated in Illinois. 
Crawford's Early.— Early Crawford has long 
held its place at the head of the list of 
peaches for home use or market. A magnifi- 
cent, large yellow fruit of good quality. No 
other variety has been so widely planted for 
market purposes. Yellow flesh, free pit, sweet 
and luscious. Tree vigorous and productive. 
Fruit ripens first of September. Origin, Middle- 
town, N. J., by Wm. Crawford. 
Crawford's Late.— A fine late September 
variety. Fruit is large and yellow with a 
flavor possibly not quite equal to Early Craw- 
ford. Still the peach has a big demand and 
is largely planted as a profitable market sort. 
Tree is vigorous; only fairly productive. 
Valued as first class in all markets. Origin, 
New Jersey. 
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