1906 . 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
111 
BAD POINTS OF CHAMPION PF.ACH 
A. A- li-, Merchuii tpllle, ,Y. >).—Will some 
of the correspondents of your paper, who are 
authorities on the peueh. give me their opin¬ 
ions as to the bad points of the Champion? 
From my limited experience I am very fa¬ 
vorably impressed with it, but am thinking of 
putting out about 500 more, and feel inclined 
to use largely Champion unless there is some 
objection to it. In 1903 I put out several 
varieties. Champion, Fitzgerald, Oldmixon, 
Stump and Elberta. The Champioq stood 
the two following severe Winters much bet¬ 
ter than Hie other sorts, has made larger, 
liner trees, and bore quite a crop this year 
of the finest flavored fruit I ever tasted. I 
had sold in Philadelphia commission market 
August 24 for .$1.33 per five-eighths basket, 
when 65 cents was top price for other 
stock. They were practically all prime, and 
measured as large as 9 Vi iuehes in circum¬ 
ference, a bright blush on one side, with 
red steaks on the other, that made them 
beauties. Are they a variety that is Table 
to produce such fruit generally; or was the 
crop just a “happenstance”? The commis¬ 
sion men who sell my stuff pronounced them 
the finest flavored fruit they had ever tasted, 
and said that they were too ripe, and that 
had they- been firmer could have sold them 
at .$1.75. 
As to the bad points of the Chaytpion 
peach, in the first place it is a clingstone, 
coming at a time when such delicious 
varieties as Mountain Rose and Belle of 
Georgia, fine freestones, are ripening. It 
is inclined to overbear, and for those 
who will not thin severely it is apt to 
be small. It also has the fault of ripen¬ 
ing over a very long period, so you can¬ 
not make a heavy picking at any one 
time. I have trees now that we com¬ 
menced picking over three weeks ago, 
and one-third of the crop is still waiting 
to ripen next week. It is very suscept¬ 
ible to the Monilia, and rots very freely 
under the slightest provocation. 
Connecticut. J. h. hale. 
I do not know any peach that succeeds 
well in so few places as the Champion. 
\\ hen it does succeed, it is one of the 
best peaches that grow. 1 have tried it; 
the tree grows, well, the buds seem as 
hardy as any, it bears abundantly, but 
just about a week before picking time 
they commence to rot, and in a few days 
the crop is destroyed. I have never been 
able to harvest 25 per cent in good con¬ 
dition. For this locality it is worthless, 
but that is no reason why the Champion 
should not be planted at Merchantvillc, 
\ T . J., if experience proves that it does 
well, and is profitable. Every grower 
should plant such varieties as he finds by 
actual trial, either by himself or others, 
succeed well in his own locality. Before 
1 planted my first orchard I visited one 
of the largest orchards in Franklin 
County, and selected six varieties that 
were most profitable there; out of the 
six only one succeeded on my ground, 
and of the number that I have tried since 
I have only found three that I can de¬ 
pend on year after year for a profitable 
crop, and I do not know anyone who 
grows the same three exclusively or who 
would name them as the three most prof¬ 
itable varieties. gabriel uiester. 
Pennsylvania. 
Its good points are as follows: When 
grown under the same conditions as I 
grow it, tree is a splendid grower, and 
will resist disease fully as much as any 
other variety. The fruit is large to 
very large, and very uniform in size; 
its color is beautiful when well ripened, 
which makes it one of the most showy 
and attractive of all peaches. The quality 
is of the very best, I know of none better. 
The tree ripens its wood early in the 
Fall, conse~uently it is quite hardy in 
bud, which makes it a very prolific bearer. 
Its faults are its inclination to cling to 
the stone; some years it is an absolute 
cling; other years partially so, and sel¬ 
dom or never perfectly free. This fea¬ 
ture is greatly against it, especially m a 
local market, and sometimes seriously 
affects the price of it. It is a variety 
more susceptible to rot than manv other 
varieties, particularly if planted upon 
heavy soil. I know of no variety that 
will rot more fully, or go down faster 
than this one when conditions are un¬ 
favorable to its ripening. The writer lost 
his whole crop of this variety in three 
days on -one occasion. For the past two 
years it lias rotted badly on mountain 
land and heavy soil, while with me little 
or no rot was shown. The present year 
an acre of Champion trees has given me 
more money per acre than the same acre 
of any other variety; the same will aoply 
to last year. I consider the Champion 
a splendid and very valuable peach, and 
it should be in every orchard where soil 
is not too heavy; it ripens only a few 
days later than the Mountain Rose, and 
is a much better all-around peach than 
that old and well-known variety, and 
when fully known will probably super¬ 
sede it entirely on light soil. I would 
not advise extensive planting of it, as 
there are other good varieties I consider 
more safe to plant on a large scale. 
wm. H. skillman. 
Somerset Co., N. J. 
Your inquirer, A. A. B., wants to know 
the bad points of the Champion peach. I 
have been acquainted with the variety 
since its introduction, 15 years or so ago. 
In fact, the originator of it sent me speci¬ 
mens before its introduction to the public. 
I would limit the bad points to the fol¬ 
lowing: “In bad weather it is more lia¬ 
ble to rot than other standard sorts like 
Mountain Rose, Oldmixon and Elberta. It 
is semi-cling. Its juiciness and sweetness 
are not liked by all persons. The first 
named trouble is the worst in my opinion. 
1 f we could every year have a dry ripen¬ 
ing season like that of 1906 it would not 
be much of a drawback, but taking a term 
of years together the greatest trouble we 
have is wet weather and lack of sunshine. 
The first specimens I ever saw, which 
were sent me by Mr. llubbard, of central 
Illinois, the originator, were freestone, 
and I presume the farther south it is 
grown the less its clings. But its good 
points are many and strong. A seedling 
of the Oldmixon, it looks and grows like 
it, but makes a larger tree. It is more 
hardy in bud than- most sorts. The fruit 
has very little fuzz, and grows to the 
largest size. The Champion ripens about 
four days later than the Mountain Rose, 
and in planting' for that season 1 would 
plant more Mountain Rose than Cham¬ 
pion, as it is such a favorite for cutting 
up for the table. NORMAN s. t’l.ATT. 
Connecticut. 
The bad points of the Champion peach 
are very few, and consist of tendencies 
to rot in unfavorable weather and being 
a partial cling. Its good points much 
more than overbalance the bad. "I hey 
consist of hardiness of tree and fruit 
buds, first-class flavor, size and appear¬ 
ance, and of holding up the size of fruit 
when trees get older. In the above quali¬ 
fies it far surpasses the old reliable 
Mountain Rose, which gets very small 
when trees are overloaded. 1 have had a 
full crop of Champion when only a par¬ 
tial crop of Mountain Rose, under same 
conditions. Those wlio are prepared to 
stand the vexation of occasionally losing 
a crop of fine fruit by rot and have high 
gravelly or sandy, loamy soil, will not be 
disappointed in planting Champion. It 
should not be planted largely on heavy flat 
retentive soils. Of other varieties not 
generally known that would no doubt 
move profi'able to A. A. B. in his section 
is Miss Lolo; it comes before Champion 
and Mountain Rose, and is still more 
hardy in bud than Champion. After trying 
many of the early varieties I find Miss 
Lolo the best of all, as it is nearly free, 
as much so as Champion; it is suited to 
sandy soil. Among other reliable varie¬ 
ties for this section of New Jersey other 
than those mentioned are Reeves’ Favorite 
(on sandy soil). Stump, Elberta, Late 
Crawford (on strong clay or gravel sub¬ 
soils only), Ford’s Late, Mt. Pleasant and 
Oldmixon, as it comes very near same 
time as Stump. Charles black. 
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