LORENTZ PEACH. 
Photographed from the fruit ; half natural size. 
LORENTZ. 
This seedling was found in an orchard of Mr. Fred. Lorentz, Marshall count}', W. Va., some five years ago 
It attracted Mr. Reid’s attention, on seeing such a handsome peach on the market at such a date— Novem- 
ber ist.— and upon making inquiry into the matter, he found it was a seedling which had come up from the 
roots of a Smock tree he sold Mr. Lorentz some years before. 
After watching the fruit personally for three years, Mr. Reid determined to get the stock and place it on the 
market. This is the first season it has been offered, only and exclusively from Reid’s Nurseries The stock will 
be light for some two years, owing to the fact that there is but one tree from which buds could be obtained and 
during the winter of 1892 this was seriously broken by a heavy ice storm. 
We offer this new peach with pride, knowing personally just what it is, and that we are giving our custom- 
ers full value for their money. It is among peaches just what Timbrell strawberry is among strawberries — 
the best ever offered. The Lorentz is known to all fruit-growers in this section, and when it was known that 
we had control of the stock, many orders were tendered us before the trees were propagated. 
WHAT WB CLAIM! FOR LORENTZ : That it is superior in quality to any other peach that 
ripens at the same time ; that it is more attractive, showing both bloom and color the same as an early Sep 
tember peach ; that it has not failed to produce a full crop in the five years it has been in existence, while but 
one crop has been gathered in the same time from other varieties ; wherefore, we believe its blooms to be frost 
proof, or so much so that no harm is done Lorentz when other standard varieties are frozen. This season, 
when all others failed, the Lorentz was loaded with fruit. From one foot of wood, cut for photographing, there 
were taken twenty-five peaches the same size as those sent out; hence it will be seen that it is an abundant 
yielder. The fruit was not so large as usual this season, because of dry weather and neglect in thinning the 
over-abnndant setting, but will average, as shown in the photo-engraving, as large as Crawford Late, Stump or 
Wheatland. Lorentz was ready for market October 25, and kept in good shape for two weeks after being 
picked. It is yellow-fleshed, with a bright red cheek, and a perfect freestone of the best quality. 
Opinions from the Horticultural Press. 
LORENTZ PEACH. — The specimens alluded to came to hand in good condition. The peaches have a yellow skin, some of 
them showing considerable red at the blossom end or on one cheek. The variety is of large medium size, a freestone, yellow 
fleshed, and of a quality equal to and excelling the average late peach The suture mark shows plainly on one side, and most of 
them have the peculiar Melocoton tip (Crawford). If it will do as well for others as for Mr. Reid, it should be a valuable addition 
to the list. E. S. Carman, Editor Rural New- Yorker. 
We have received from E. W. Reid, the well-known nurseryman of Bridgeport, O., a basket of the Lorentz peach. They 
were sampled, and found to be all that was claimed for them, so far as quality was concerned. When Reid savs peaches aro 
good, we are ready to believe it. ' Axtei.i., Rush & Co., 
Editors of National Stockman and Farmer, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Price, first-class, $1 each, $10 per doz., $75 per 100; medium, 75 cts. each, $ 7.50 per doz., $50 per 100; 
small mail size, postpaid, 50 cts. each, $5 per doz. 
