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SELECT PEACHES. 
IN planting Peaches, cut back the trees severely. This is of the highest importance. The 
trunk should be reduced about one-third, and the side branches back to one bud. This les- 
sens the demand upon the roots, and enables the remaining buds to push more vigorously. 
PEACH FRUIT is produced on wood of the last season's growth, houce the necessity for 
keeping up a ijoiid supply of vigorous annual shoots all over the tree. Keep the ground clean 
and mellow around the trees. Keep the heads low— the trunk ought not to exceed 3 feet in 
height. Every spring prune and shorten the shoots of the previous year's growth ; thus keeping 
the head round, full, and well furnished with bearing wood. Cut weak shoots back about one" 
half, strong ones one-third ; but see that you have a sufficient supply of fruit buds. 
Alexander. Deep red on greenish white. Champion. White, 
Flesh white. Season late July. Fruit about White. Season August. 
medium size. Flesh whitish, sometimes .stained 
next the skin ; half melting, juicy and sweet. 
Stone small, and adheres but .slightly. Tree 
healthy and vigorous, prolific, bears young. 
Introduced from Illinois. 
Beer's Smock. Orange-red on yellow. 
Flesh yellow. Season first part of October. 
Fruit large, oval, well calculated for distant 
market shipment. Flesh bright yellow, red at 
stone, moderately juicy, rich. Freestone. 
Valuable for drying purposes and for canning. 
Tree vigorous. One of the most valuable late 
Peaches. A seedling of the old Smock I'Vee. 
Origin, New Jersey. 
Carman. Red. Flesh Yellow. Early. 
The Carman (named after the late editor of 
the Rural New Yorker) is described by that 
valuable paper as follows: 
"Promises to stand at the hfad for a general 
long distan(!e, profitable market variety. One 
of the hardiest in bud. The early i>eiiring 
habit of the Carman is remarkable, 'in tonality 
ranking absolutely supeiior to anythmg ri- 
pening at the same season. In its shipping 
qualities — in freedom from rot— this excellent 
Feach is unsurpassed." 
The originator reported, "six regular crops 
from the original tree in as many years." Sea- 
son jery early; size large, and just about half 
the Peach is striped and mottled with crimson, 
the rest being a light buff color. 
red cheek. Flesh 
Fruit grows very 
large, many specimens mea.suring 10 inches in 
circumference. Color a ci'eamy white, with 
red cheek. Flesh white ; flavor delicious, 
sweet, rich and juicy. Freestone. Tree very 
hardy and productive. Its record covers with- 
standing a temperature of 18 degrees below zero, 
and of bearing a heavy crop "in 1890, when 
there was an almost total f.-.ilure of the Peach 
crop on account of the extreme cold. A good 
shipper. Comes from Illinois. 
Connecticut. Deep yellow, red check. 
Flesh yellow. Late August and first part of 
September. Fruit is large, round, highly flav- 
ored. Hardy. 
Crawford Early. Red. Flesh 
Season early September. Fruit 
handsome. Color a beautiful, .showy yellow 
and red cheek. Flesh deep yellow, very juicy 
and rich, and of splendid flavor. A magnifi- 
cent large yellow Peach of .sjilendid quality. A 
variety most desirable and well deserving of 
its great popularity, for its size of fruit, beau- 
ty of color, and [iroductiveness make it one of 
the most pojiular orchard and "home use'' 
rieties. A jierfect freestone. Tree is 
productive. Origin, New Jersey. 
Crawford Late. Red. Flesh yellow. Sea- 
son late September. Fruit vei-y large, round- 
Yellow. 
very large, 
va- 
very 
