A CATALOG OF NEW FRUITS 
small but productive. The fruit is of medium size, nearly covered with red, and is 
of very good quality; the flesh is white and adherent to the stone. This variety 
begins the nectarine season. 
Rivers Orange is a yellow-fleshed 
nectarine which ripens in early mid¬ 
season. The fruit is a freestone 
nearly covered with a dark red 
blush. No nectarine has a richer, 
sweeter flavor. This is one of the 
choicely good European sorts. 
Sure Crop was imported from 
New Zealand and so far is the 
most promising nectarine at the 
New York Experiment Station. The 
tree is vigorous and productive. The 
fruits are large, roundish, white and 
overlaid with very attractive red. 
The flesh is firm, tender, free from 
the stone, and very pleasing in 
flavor; late midseason. Sure Crop 
will probably suit the palate and the 
eye better than any other of the 
several delectable nectarines here 
listed. 
Breeding A New Apple 
Seed Protected by Wire Netting and 
Stratified in Sand from Harvest to 
Early Spring 
PEACHES 
Forty or fifty years ago the peach was America’s most profitable 
fruit. Now the peach industry is down in the dumps. Why? Be¬ 
cause people do not like the abominable Elberta, about the only 
peach they can buy. The peach industry will never “come back” in 
this country until growers plant better varieties than Elberta'—'grow 
peaches that are “peaches”. The New York Fruit Testing Associa¬ 
tion offers a succession of varieties, each and every one of which is 
better than Elberta in fruit and some of them equal to it in tree. 
Mikado is a popular early variety. The tree is medium in size and vigor and is 
very productive in mixed plantings. The fruit ripens the first week of August, is 
medium in size, round in shape, semi-cling, and is an attractive yellow blushed 
with red. The quality is good. Mikado is pollen-sterile and therefore requires 
cross-pollination. 
The following varieties are recent introductions of merit from the New Jersey 
Experiment Station: 
Delicious is a white-fleshed seedling of Belle. The tree is vigorous and produc¬ 
tive. The fruit is of the Belle type, medium to large in size and very attractive; 
the flesh medium firm, good or above in quality, and free from the stone. Delicious 
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