Section of Peach Nursery 
Teaches 
W E HAVE for many years made the growing of Peach trees a prominent feature of 
our nursery business. While there are a few varieties that can be successfully 
planted over a more or less widely extended area, most of the varieties are limited 
in their range of adaptability; hence the large number of varieties propagated. 
There are several different classes or types of Peaches, as follows : Persian , which 
includes a large number of varieties most commonly grown in the North, and comparatively 
few of which are adapted to Florida or the Gulf coast country. Northern Chinese , which 
includes Elberta and many other fine varieties adapted to most of the country generally spoken 
of as the “ Cotton Belt,” but with northern Florida as about the southern limit of adaptability. 
Spanish , which includes many native varieties that have originated in Florida and the Gulf 
coast country, and which are for the most part fine Peaches, but better adapted to the latitude 
of north Florida than to that of south Florida. Honey } which includes the parent Honey and 
numerous varieties that have originated from it ; the range of best adaptability being from 
half way down the state of Florida northward to middle Georgia, and similar latitudes farther 
west to the Mexican border. Peen-to , which includes the original tomato-shaped Peen-to as 
well as the regular peach-shaped varieties that have originated from it ; best adapted to 
southern Florida and similar semi-tropical latitudes. Oriental ( .Bloods , which include the Red 
Ceylon, adapted to the same range as the Peen-to type ; and the Japan Dwarf Blood, adapted 
to the same range of territory as the Honey type. 
During the past 19 years we have tested, in our own orchards, a very large number of 
Peaches, including the most prominent varieties of all the different types above named. We 
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