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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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Peaches. 
There is no tree which makes a more rapid growth and 
comes into bearing sooner after planting than the Peach. 
Trees small enough to go by mail will bear in three years, 
and their cost is so little that every home in our land should 
abundantly supplied with this most valuable fruit. 
The Everbearing Peach. 
This is one of the; most remarkable of 
Peaches, as it combines' many desirable quali 
ties which make it of great value for family 
use. 1. Its long continued bearing period. 
The first ripening begins about in July and 
successive crops are produced until the be¬ 
ginning of November. Fruit in all stages of 
development—ripe and half grown—may be 
seen upon the tree at the same time. Two- 
year-old trees bear, freely. 2. As the tree 
blossoms during a long period, a complete 
failure of fruit has never happened since the 
original tree first began to bear, ten years ago. 
3. The fruit is creamy white, mottled and 
striped with light purple and with pink veins; 
oblong in shape, and tapering to the apex; 
flesh white, with red veins near the skin; 
very juicy, vinous, and of excellent flavor; 
quality very best. Freestone, of the Indian 
type. No praise can do justice to this magni¬ 
ficent novelty. It. is really one of the finest 
things we ever offered. Good size, prolific* 
best quality and bears continually for three 
months. What more can be desired? Fine 
trees for fruiting next year by mail, 30c. each; 
3 for 75c;. 7 for $1.50. 
Holderbahiq Peach. 
This Champion of all Peaches originated 
in 1880. in Somerset, Pennsylvania, one of the 
highest and coldest points on the Alleghany 
Mountains, where the mercury often drops to 28 degrees be¬ 
low zero. The original tree is now'25 feet high and 10 inches 
in diameter at the base, with foliage surpassing anything 
ever before seen in the nature of a Peach. The leaves are of 
a dark, heavy green, measuring from 8 to 10 inches in length. 
It has one valuable advantage in the peculiar character of its 
blossoms, which never open out like those of other varieties, but remain 
closed, with a heavy growth of moss-like fuzz covering the young I each 
and protecting it from heavy spring frosts. The size of the matured fruit 
is immense, many specimens measuring from 12 to 14 inches in circum- 
ferenco. In color it is of a light cream^ellow, with a beautiful red cheek on the sunny side. In texture it is very firm, or 
fine quality, and a perfect free-stone, 
to the center, and of most exquisite P 
varieties. For hardiness, vigorous * 
