Part I. Fruit Department. 
Deciduous and 
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Peaches. 
Within the past few years the culture of this fine fruit has assumed large proportions in the South, and 
wherever careful attention has been paid to the selection of varieties, Peach growing nas proved very profitable. 
Our Specialty. For many years we have made Peaches a specialty, both in orchard and nursery. 
Peach culture in this region is of comparatively recent origin. When our attention was first turned in this 
direction but few Peaches were grown, and these for home use only. One frequently saw a few scattering 
trees about the houses or fence corners, and occasionally small seedling orchards, but there had been, 
properly speaking, no effort at orchard culture. There was no such thing as named varieties. Occasional 
introductions from Peach districts elsewhere had proved ill-adapted, and failed. The few trees grown were 
produced exclusively from seed. But scattered here and there through the country were individual trees 
that produced fine fruit. These individuals belonged to vigorous, well-adapted strains, which had existed 
here time immemorial. We collected and tested these varieties, introducing and disseminating the best. 
Others were experimenting in the same field, notably Mr. Gilbert Onderdonk, in Southern Texas. In this 
way were obtained the well-known varieties of native or “ Spanish ” type. The foregoing, with the varieties 
of Northern Chinese type, and the subsequently introduced orientals, Honey and Peen-to, have, with their 
crosses and progeny, given us a race of Peaches well adapted to the Lower South, in time of ripening extend¬ 
ing from the first in market over a period of several months. 
We have not only tried these natives, as well as hundreds of well-known varieties, but have also planted 
and fruited several acres of seedlings from selected seed from particular strains, in the hope of making 
important additions to our long list of valuable kinds ; in this we have been more successful than we antici¬ 
pated. Having tested a larger number of varieties than, perhaps, any other grower in the South, we are 
confident we have the most valuable collection of Peaches ever grown in America, of varieties adapted to the 
coast region from Florida to Texas. , 
New Varieties. Our latest introductions are the five new varieties : Colon, Ferdinand, Sangmel, 
Taber and Triana, previously listed as Taber’s numbers (respectively) 29, 33, 31, 26 and 34. These are the 
“prize” varieties. (See last year's Catalogue for account of competition for prizes offered for names for 
these varieties.) 
They are the result of a special line of work which we have carried on for several years ; namely, the 
;planting of selected seed from selected seedlings of particular si?'a ins or types of Peaches . The five 
varieties referred to originated from the seed upon our own grounds, being selected from trees obtained by 
planting (in 1887) a large quantity of selected seed from improved secdli?igs of the Honey /’each, the 
parent seedlings having already shown a marked deviation from the type ; in this way we obtained varieties 
which have been a surprise to ourselves and all who have seen them. The fruit from over two hundred 
seedlings of the above-mentioned origin was carefully tested by us in 1891, direct from the trees planted in 
our own orchards, and eleven trees (out of the two hundred) were marked with numbers as being especially 
valuable. From these eleven trees we have, by still further careful selection, reduced the number to five, 
all of which are possessed of genuine and individual merit. 
All of these Peaches bloom late in the spring — as late as or later than the grandparent, Honey — thus 
obviating danger from late frosts. Their time of ripening is when Peaches are in demand—after the earliest 
varieties have been marketed, and before the midsummer varieties come on. These varieties show unmis¬ 
takable evidence of having been crossed with blood Peaches of the Spanish type, and hende they should prove 
well adapted to the entire South. Since last year’s Catalogue was issued we have fruited these new varieties 
another year, and they have fully borne out previous promise. 
For a particular description of Taber, Colon, Sangmel, Ferdinand and Triana, see Descriptive List of 
Fetches. 
Varieties Dropped. A number of varieties previously listed will not be found in this Catalogue. We do 
not esteem these varieties less highly than heretofore, but they have been dropped simply because they did 
not differ in any essential respect from varieties in the revised list which we prefer to propagate. The list of 
