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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 14, 1920 
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The Scientific Search for a Peach 
NEW JERSEY COMING BACK WITH NEW 
VARIETIES 
Part IV. 
Belle X Early Crawford. —The seed¬ 
ling*? resulting from the cross of Early 
Crawford on Belle are interesting from 
the standpoint that there is a possibility 
that succeeding generations may show what 
variety was the pollen parent of Belle. If 
Belle were a pure white, and Early Craw¬ 
ford a pure yellow, then all the progeny 
in this generation should he white. How¬ 
ever, this did not prove to be the case, so 
Belle must carry a factor for yellow. 
Belle and Early Crawford normally ripen 
within a few days of each other. Early 
Crawford the earlier. Last season at New 
Brunswick Belle ripened about August 
27. so Early Crawford would have ripened 
about August 22 or 23. In the seedlings, 
however, we find quite a wide range in 
ripening,, the first on August 15 and the 
last on September 6. The greatest num¬ 
ber on one day was 15 seedlings described 
as ripening on August 22, which would he 
about the season of Early Crawford. An¬ 
other group of nine ripened on September 
1, which is a few days after the Belle 
season. The rest are scattered, but there 
seemed to be no great regularity. The 
number of individuals is small, however, 
as only G5 ripened this season, 30 from 
the 1916 planting and 96 from the 1917 
planting. When these are classified, we 
find 15 desirable. 22 may be desirable, 
five not very desirable and 23 not desir¬ 
able. Here again we have about two- 
thirds of the seedlings that might he 
planted for commercial purposes, while 
three-fourths bore fruit that was market¬ 
able. 
Seedling Characteristics. — What 
contribution this cross has made toward 
our ideal may be seen in the statement 
that seven seedlings were considered 
worthy to be budded for further trial. 
Among these are three yellow oval free¬ 
stones ripening on young trees on Sep¬ 
tember 1, which would bring them norm¬ 
ally to about Belle season. These were 
all shaped much like Belle, with high 
color, but had the flesh-color of Early 
Crawford and somewhat more of the 
Crawford flavor. In other words, the 
promise of a yellow Belle seems about to 
be fulfilled. If hardier than Early Craw¬ 
ford and as adaptable as Belle at least 
one of these should find a place in New 
Jersey peach growing. One other seed¬ 
ling bears a round white-fleshed fruit that 
has a flavor very close to that of Cham- 
piou, but the fruit seems to be resistant 
to brown rot. This seedling ripens at 
about the Champion season. Of the seed¬ 
lings of this cross that fruited, 38 had 
yellow flesh and 27 had white flesh. Mak¬ 
ing predictions on the remainder that did 
not fruit this year, 36 yellow and 22 
white, we should have a total of 76 yel¬ 
low and 51 white-fleshed varieties result¬ 
ing from this cross. This would seem to 
indicate that Belle really does carry a 
factor for yellow. Both varieties are 
freestones, but of the 65 seedlings 12 were 
clingstone, one a semi-cling and 52 are 
free. This is a high percentage of free¬ 
stones, as a few Early Crawford seed¬ 
lings some cling and one of the parents 
of Belle a clingstone. 
Early Crawford X Belle. —The seed¬ 
lings from the reciprocal of the foregoing 
cross, making Early Crawford the seed 
parent and Belle the pollen parent did not 
fruit very well last season, only eight out 
of 28. Of these eight, one was desirable, 
four may he desirable, one not very de¬ 
sirable, two not desirable. Five were 
white, three yellow, six free and two 
eling. none of these was budded. The 
number of fruit is too small from which 
to draw conclusions, although it appears 
that 13 will be white and 15 yellow. This 
would indicate a prepotence of Early 
Crawford for yellow color when that va¬ 
riety is the female or seed parent. 
Belle Self-Pollinated. —In breeding 
most plants, there is a decided advantage 
over the breeding of animals, in that we 
■ire able to self-pollinate and thus, in ef¬ 
fect, analyze the genetic composition of 
the individual. So, by self-pollinating 
Belle we can find out what factors it car¬ 
ries as well as hope that something good 
will be found among the seedlings. Belle 
matured its fruit on the College Farm 
about August 27. The 95 seedlings began 
to ripen on August 13, and the last one 
ripened on September 16, extending the 
period over one month. The largest group 
ripened about with Belle, 38 between 
August 25 and 29. A group of 19 ripened 
from the 16th to the 18th ; another group 
of 14 from the 20th to the 22nd and a 
group of 15 from August 31 to Septem¬ 
ber 2. The rest are scattered, there being 
none to ripen from September 8 to Sep¬ 
tember 16, when the last one ripened. 
Variations in Ripening. — Since we 
do not know exactly the parentage of 
Belle, it is rather difficult to explain the 
variation in the time of ripening of the 
various seedlings. The largest group we 
can understand, since it comes at about 
the same time as the parents. The later 
groups we can understand, since Chinese 
Cling, the seed parent of Belle, ripens 
late, at the same time or just after El- 
berta. If Belle is an offspring of Chinese 
Cling X Oldmixon, we should not expect 
any early ripening seedlings, unless Old¬ 
mixon carries a factor for earliness, be¬ 
cause this latter variety is also a late 
ripener. If, on the other hand, Belle is of 
the same parentage as Elberta is believed 
to be, that is, Chinese Cling X* Early 
Crawford, then we should expect the 
earlier ripening groups, some of which, 
however, occur even earlier than Early 
Crawford. We suspect that the latter 
parentage is more nearly the true one. 
Merits of Seedlings. —In ranking the 
seedlings according to merit, we find a 
still greater desirability among the fruits. 
Twenty-six were desirable, 35 may he de¬ 
sirable. 14 not very desirable and 20 not 
desirable. Practically all of these bore 
marketable fruit, only a few of the not 
desirable ones being so clingy or so acid 
that they would not be acceptable. This 
is a great record, but is just*what would 
be expected from a good variety like Belle, 
especially in the light of its behavior when 
crossed with Greensboro. One seedling 
bad fruit that resembled almost exactly 
the variety Hiley, although the habit of 
the tree and the shape of the leaves were 
different from this variety. From those 
that wore considered desirable, 11 were 
selected for propagation for further trial. 
Among the most promising of these are a 
long oval yellow of good quality and high 
color, ripening about a week before Belle. 
Another oval yellow, above medium in 
size, ripened a few days earlier than Belle, 
and two others just with Belle. Another 
shaped somewhat like Elberta ripens at 
the same time or a day or two later than 
Belle. Several white oval varieties at the 
Belle season were also propagated. Of 
course it is not expected that any of these 
will replace Belle as this variety is too 
well established, unless it has some great 
outstanding character as an improvement 
over Belle, such as less irritability or an 
increase in hardiness. 
Color of Flesh. —It may be gathered 
from the foregoing paragraph that some 
of these seedlings are yellow. About one- 
third of those that fruited were yellow, 
29, while 66 were white. Of those that 
have not yet fruited, 31 wfill probably be 
yellow and 109 white. These added to¬ 
gether give 60 yellow and 175 white, or 
approximately one-fourth yellow. This 
gives added weight to our belief that 
Early Crawford may have been the pollen 
parent of Belle. In addition, a number 
of the seedlings have a fruit character 
that seems to be characteristic of the 
Crawfords, the reflex tip. What is meant 
by this is that the remnant of the style 
of the pistil is curved backward away 
from the suture side. Sixty-one were 
freestones, 14 semi-cling and 20 cling¬ 
stones. 
Belle X Elberta. —A cross that will 
no doubt of general interest is the cross 
between Belle, seed parent and Elberta, 
pollen parent. In this cross are brought 
together the most' widely planted variety 
and another one that is only slightly less 
generally grown. In addition to that, it 
brings together two varieties that may be 
of indentical parentage. The flesh color 
of the seedlings is perhaps as interesting 
a point as any. Of those that fruited 22 
had yellow* flesh and 31 white flesh. If 
we consider also those that have not 
fruited, the probability is that a total of 
32 will he yellow* and 36 white, which 
gives us almost a 50-50 ratio. This is 
what would he expected. The greater 
number of the seedlings yielded market¬ 
able fruit. Nineteen were desirable, 13 
may be desirable, 12 not very desirable 
and nine not desirable. Of those 12 were 
propagated for trial, which is a goodly 
number, about 25 per cent of the total. 
Among these are several that may be of 
commercial importance. There are three 
yellow-fleshed oval freestones, that ripen 
about with Belle, two white oval free¬ 
stones that ripen with Elberta and a yel¬ 
low oval freestone ripening tw*o or three 
days later than Elberta. These seedlings 
began to ripen on August 22. and the last 
one to fruit ripened on September 13. 
There are two general groups as to period, 
one group of 16 extending from Septem¬ 
ber 1 to September 7. The first group 
corresponds approximately with the ripen¬ 
ing dates of Belle and the latter with El¬ 
berta. In respect to adhesion of flesh to 
stone, 34 were freestones, three semi-cling 
and 16 clingstones, giving a ratio of a lit¬ 
tle more than two to one free. 
Sending Tobacco to Germany 
I have a friend in Germany who writes 
me he cannot get any good tobacco, but 
the postmaster here says I cannot send 
any tobacco to Germany. C. H. B. 
The postmaster of New York writes us 
as follows: 
“Regarding the sending of tobacco by 
mail to Germany, you are informed that 
packages containing foodstuffs (not 
perishable and articles for the personal 
use of addressees will be accepted for 
transmission by parcel post to Germany, 
without the need for import licenses, at 
the rate of 12 cents a pound or fraction 
thereof, limit of weight 11 pounds. 
“Packages containing merchandise other 
than mentioned above will be accepted for 
transmission by parcel post to Germany 
only under licenses obtained from the Im¬ 
perial Commissioner of Exportation and 
Importation, 6-8 Lutzow Ufer Street, Ber¬ 
lin W-10. T. G. PATTEN. 
