Angel Peaches (See page 19) 
PEACHES 
The principal reasons we recommend planting Peaches for commercial purposes — for we 
do most strongly recommend them—are : 
The Peach is a standard fruit; one for which there is a market demand that is probably 
equaled by only one or two other fruits. A very rare occurrence, indeed, that a person is found 
who does not relish it either for eating out of hand or served in some of the multitudinous ways 
in which it is capable of being made palatable. 
It is one of the quickest of horticultural products to bring results. Trees planted during 
the winter months should commence bearing a year from the following spring or summer, ac¬ 
cording to time of ripening of varieties planted. 
The range of adaptability is wonderful. Few fruits can be successfully grown under such 
varying conditions of climate and soil. With the proper selection of varieties, Peaches can be 
grown from within a few hundred miles of the northern boundary of the United States to South 
Florida and similar latitudes; in fact, even in the tropics, for we know of orchards in the West 
Indies consisting of Waldo, Jewel, Angel and other varieties of the Peen-to strain that have 
given excellent results. But it is in the cotton belt of the southern states and reaching down 
to central peninsular Florida that peach-growing is most extensively and profitably carried on. 
Then again, the expense of planting and caring for a Peach orchard is small as compared 
with many other fruits. Prices for trees are low, and the preparation of the land does not neces¬ 
sarily have to be as thorough as for many other fruits. The trees are easy to make live if first- 
class stock is planted. 
Our trees are all summer buds. By this we mean buds inserted during May and June of 
1905 into stocks grown from seed bedded September, 1904, and planted into nursery rows March, 
1905. In other words, the stocks have only about nine months’ growing season and buds only 
about six. By early December (the opening of the shipping season) a large proportion of them 
are over 4 feet high and many run 4 to 7 feet. In order to attain this size in such a short time, 
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