THE CARMAN PEACH. 
One of the Great Varieties. 
The picture on this page shows 
the Carman peach as grown at 
Hope Farm. This is the me¬ 
dium size—many specimens are 
larger. These peaches are grown 
on trees which have never been 
pruned except to cut out inter¬ 
fering branches. They make a 
small, solid growth each year 
and practically shape their own 
head. Some of such trees gave 
this year over six baskets of 
peaches. The long, slender 
limbs arch over to the ground, 
covered with brick-red fruit. An 
actual picture of one of these 
trees with the exact coloring re¬ 
produced would make such a 
brilliant showing that the ma¬ 
jority who saw it would not be- 
live it possible for Nature to 
use so much red paint. 
With us the Carman is on^ 
of the most profitable peaches. 
It comes at a time when the 
Southern Elbertas are about 
cleaned out, while there is noth¬ 
ing approaching it in value in 
the local market. It is a white 
peach, but with such a brilliant 
coloring that it overcomes much 
of the objection which many 
customers have for white-fleshed 
varieties. One customer bought 
it for the first time with some 
hesitation, but came back and 
demanded more. For canning 
most families prefer yellow 
peaches, but those who try Car¬ 
man are greatly pleased with 
the cream-colored mass which 
comes out of the can. Most of 
our crop is sold in the local mar¬ 
ket, so we can let the fruit 
soften on the tree. Under such 
conditions the peach separates 
from the pit freely, while if 
picked too early it is practically 
a cling. The Carman seems to 
prefer a light soil where the 
fertilizer can be kept under con¬ 
trol. Most of the reports we 
receive regarding Carman are 
very favorable, but in a few 
cases growers do not regard it 
so highly. We seem to have the 
soil and conditions which this 
fine variety demands. We be¬ 
lieve that with both the peach 
and the apple success largely de¬ 
pends upon adapting the variety 
to climate and soil. Carman 
was “originated” by J. W. Stu- 
benrauch, of Texas, and he has 
sent us the following new peach 
story. Mr. Stubenrauch has 
been working with peaches for 
many years, and has a number 
of other new varieties now 
under trial, which are likely to 
be as worthy as the Carman. 
’CARMAN PEACHES AS GROWN AT HOPE FARM. Fig. 405. 
Where Carman Came From. 
It pleases me to learn of your 
decided success with the Car¬ 
man. It is also the best we 
have here in its time of ripen¬ 
ing. It is still the same as it 
was when first it came into ex¬ 
istence, with the one exception 
that it now ripens fully two 
weeks later than it did at first. 
When it was first discovered 
the fruit, nearly every speci- 
man, was overripe; birds and 
wasps had feasted on it freely, 
yet none had rotted, while at 
the other end of orchard the 
Alexanders, just at their best, 
were rotting badly. The Car¬ 
man tree being practically iso¬ 
lated from the influence of rot 
spores, no rot could develop. 
This proved to me the import¬ 
ance of doing away with all the 
rotten fruit as soon as discov¬ 
ered. Strange as it may appear, 
nearly every one of my newer 
seedlings is acting in a similar 
manner as regards time of rip¬ 
ening. A number of them that 
ripened even two years ago, yet. 
before Elberta, the “Joe” for in¬ 
stance, is now this season a 
week behind its mother (El¬ 
berta). Frank used to be right 
close behind Elberta; it is now 
two weeks later, and others in 
proportion. Plaving Elberta 
growing right by side of them, 
it is easy to judge. 
The way the Carman came 
to be was this: Some seeds had 
been saved and planted from 
some choice specimens of El¬ 
berta, the tree of which stood 
next to a “Family Favorite.” 
This peach is also, like Elberta, 
of the North China type. The 
seedlings when a year old were 
planted in an orchard. The 
least promising ones, judging 
by appearance of growth and 
foliage, were budded to some 
standard varieties. The seed¬ 
ling that looked so handsome, 
with its large leaves and fine, 
thrifty growth, and which finally 
produced the nice peach that we 
named Carman, was left unbud¬ 
ded. Thus, its fine appearance 
saved it to the world. Nature 
had put the earmark on this 
peach, and being able to guess 
at the mark is what saved it. 
I myself in this deserve no 
special credit for the being of 
the Carman. You people, any 
and all, who are enjoying this 
splendid peach, are indebted to 
the man for whom it was named 
for this blessing. It was Editor 
E. S. Carman, to whom I had 
sent samples of this peach, who 
stated repeatedly in the columns 
