A. B. Hood £r Co.’s Descriptive Catalogue 
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Select Peaches 
I'lie ease with which Peach trees may be cultivated, their comparative freedom 
from disease, the short period before they become ])roductive, with the immense 
demand for the fruit and the facility with which it may be shipped to distant markets, 
make Peach-itrowins extremely profitable. 
We have the climate and the opportunities to develop this fruit to the highest stan- 
dard of excellence, and it should be a source of gratification to all that within the hist 
few years so many valuable new varieties of merit have been introduced. 
Owing to the greatly increased demand for the Peach, due to the development of 
the canning and eva|)orating interests, this fruit will no doubt continue to be exceed- 
ingly profitable to the orchardist w ho gives the business proper attention and has a 
suitable location for his orchard. 
The grower in the southern states w ho Inis transportation facilities to market his 
fruit in the northern markets, we would advi.se to plant largely of the earliest varie- 
ties ; they mature and c;m be marketetl in New York before the fruit of Delaw are ;md 
Maryland is ripe. In the New York market the early southern Peaches always com- 
mand the highest prices. Those situated beyond the reach of convenient transporta- 
tion should, after providing for their local markets, plant the best sorts for canning 
and evaporating purposes, as these have now become \ ery important and profitable 
industries. 
riiere is no fruit tree that makes so (inick a return as the Peach, (jive it reason- 
able attention, and in three years from planting a fair crop may be gathered ; and the 
receipts from a good orchard tire something of importtmce, there now being many 
Peach growers in Delaware and Maryland who realize from ten to twenty thousand 
dollars from that crop in favorable seasons, and yet they do not have the tidvantage 
of the high jirices that may be obtained by the southern orchardist for his earlier 
crop, brought into the nuirket before the competition that meets the Maryland and 
1 )eliiw:ire grovier. 
Our imrpose is to grow the best trees — not the lowe.st-priced ones. Great care is 
necessary to preserve the health of the young tree before it is taken to the orchard. 
We, therefore, are careful to select the best seed, to use buds from healthy trees only, 
and we tire confident that every tree will be true to name and just as represented by 
us. I'ifteen or twenty sorts will give a sticce.ssion through the season that would 
satisfy the most fastidious lover of this fruit, not only in ti succession, but in a variety 
of sorts for all setisons. 
Alexander, h ruit medium to large, bright i Peaches for home consumption, but too 
color and of good (]uality ; one of the tender for long transportation ; freestone, 
favorite early market varieties. Last of July. 
Amelia. From South Carolina ; very Bilyeu’s Late. Originated in Caroline 
large and beautiful ; white, nearly covered county, Md., ripening after Smock Free 
with crimson; llesh white, juicy, melt- and SaKvay; fruit of large size; color white, 
ing. sweet, ricli, vinous ; one of the best with a beautiful blush cheek ; llesh white. 
