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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Peaches. 
^ ree whicl1 makes a more rapid growth and 
nwc? "faring sooner after planting than the Peach. 
«^° Ugil i • A 0 ! g P, )y mail will hear in three years., 
he S0 vH® ever >' home in our land should 
be abundantly supplied with this most valuable fruit. 
The Everbearing Peach. 
■d T £ is is one of the most remarkable of 
Peaches, as it combines many desirable quali¬ 
ties which make it of great value for family 
ml?' . long continued bearing period, 
ine 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 treefirst 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. 
fjolderbaiiixj Peacfy. 
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 Peach 
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¬ 
ference. In color it is of a light cream-yellow, with a beautiful red cheek on the sunny side. In texture it is very firm, of 
fine quality, and a perfect free-stone. The pit is very small and the flesh light yellow, streaked with red from the surface 
to the center, and of most exquisite flavor. It ripens about August 15, thus making it one of the earliest of all free-stone 
varieties. For hardiness, vigorous growth and long life it is certainly the Champion of all Peaches. 25c. each; 5 for $1.00. 
