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“Welch’s”—the place to buy good trees 
Peaches 
The most universally planted fruit for home use. Peach trees are being planted profitably as fillers in apple orchards, 
for they make ground space that is practically idle, pay well until the apples come into bearing. Peach trees will thrive wher- 
ever corn or potatoes can be raised. Next to apples, peaches are more relished and used for a greater variety of purposes 
than most of the other fruits. In the dooryard, the Peach tree is decorative at all seasons, and especially when laden with 
its bower of lovely pink blossoms in the spring. And what is more enjoyable in the summer than to eat your fill of luscious 
Peaches from your own trees. For the commercial grower, Peaches produce fortunes, and a well-cared-for Peach orchard is 
a veritable mint for coining money. We list the best and hardiest varieties. 
CHAMPION (Freestone). Fruit large, beau' 
tiful in appearance, flavor delicious, sweet, 
rich and juicy; skin creamy white with red 
cheeks; freestone. The peculiarity of this 
acquisition is its hardiness. It stood tem¬ 
peratures of 18 degrees below zero and 
produced an abundant crop the following 
season, and again in 1890 produced a full 
crop w'hen the Peach crop was a universal 
failure. August. 
CRAWFORD’S EARLY (Freestone). Highly —— 
esteemed for market. Fruit large, oblong, 
yellow, showy red cheeks. Flesh yellow, juicy, sweet; 
good bearer. August. 
CRAWFORD’S LATE (Freestone). Fruit of large size, 
skin yellow, with a dull red cheek, flesh yellow; tree vig- 
orous. September. 
ELBERTA (Freestone). Fruit large, yellow with red cheeks; 
flesh yellow, juicy, fine quality. Tree hardy and exceeding¬ 
ly productive. Ripens with the Crawford’s Early. Ex¬ 
ceptionally large and fine. August. 
J. H. HALE (Freestone). The fruit is larger than the El- 
berta, a perfect freestone, somewhat roundish, rich golden 
yellow, covered with carmine. Skin thick and entirely 
without fuzz. The flesh is dark yellow, fine grained and 
firm, parting as casilv from the pit as any Elberta. The 
flavor is excellent, absolutely of the best. The tree is 
hardy, bears young and profusely, probably the best 
bearer known. One of the best for family use and es¬ 
pecially for the market. August. 
Prices 
5 to 7 ft.#0.30 
4 to 6 ft.25 
3 to 4 ft. (prepaid): 
Each.# 0.20 
ROCHESTER (Free). Early midseason. Color 
lemon-yellow changing to orange-yellow, 
blushed with deep, dark red. Skin thick, 
tough. Flesh yellow stained with red near 
the pit. Very juicy, tender and melting. 
Sweet. Highly flavored. Very good in qual¬ 
ity. 
SOUTH HAVEN The great hardy Peach for 
cold regions, stands 10 degrees colder 
weather than any other Peach grown. Large, 
yellow freestone. Large as Elberta and a 
week earlier on the market. Of all Peaches 
for Indiana markets, this rules supreme. Plant for com¬ 
mercial purposes: South Haven, Elberta, J. H. Hale. 
All yellow, all freestone, all money-makers. 
MAYFLOWER. The earliest ripening Peach. Medium in 
size, dark red in color with a juicy, tender white flesh. 
Quality fair. Tree productive. Ripens last week in June 
or first of July. 
SALWAY (Freestone). Large, roundish, deep yellow with 
rich red cheek; flesh yellow, firm and juicy; sugary; a 
valuable late market sort. First of October. 
RED BIRD CLING. Here is the best of all early Peaches. 
The tree is hardy, vigorous and very productive. The 
fruit is of good size and of very showy appearance, be¬ 
ing an attractive creamy white, splashed or blushed with 
red. Flesh white, firm, meaty and of good flavor. A 
fruit that will stand shipping. One of the best home 
fruits and a leading early market Peach. 
EARLY ELBERTA (Free). Larger than Elberta, though 
identical in form; bright yellow with red blush; flesh 
yellow, finer grained and sweeter than Elberta; ripens a 
week to ten days before Elberta, good shipper. Tree 
strong grower, hardy, good bearer. Last of August. 
BELLE OF GEORGIA. Very large, skin white with red 
cheek, flesh white, firm, and of excellent flavor. Tree a 
rapid grower, very prolific. Ripens with Early Crawford. 
HEATH CLING (Clingstone). Large, round, white, juicy 
and fine quality. Best for pickling. October. 
Hale Peaches. 
