GREEN’S NURSERY COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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Rochester Peaches — An Excellent Very Early Variety 
Vail Deman. (Freestone.) For several years the 
lamented Prof. H. E. Van Deman has 
been telling me of a wonderful peach which was discovered on 
a farm near Prof. Van Deman’s summer home in Benzie 
County, Michigan. Prof. Van Deman said that this was the 
best early peach he had seen and that it w r as the only yellow 
freestone peach of high quality ripening with the earliest. 
Since Prof. Van Deman had no superior as a discriminating 
judge of fruits, and since his expert knowledge was in demand 
at all the great exhibitions in this country, including such 
national shows as those held at Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo, 
Philadelphia and elsewhere, it is hardly possible to over¬ 
estimate his opinion of this valuable new peach. As Prof. 
Van Deman was the discoverer and promoter of this new 
yellow freestone peach, it seems proper that it should be 
named the Van Deman in honor of my friend and co-worker 
with whom I have been associated for nearly forty years. 
The objection to many varieties of peach, which are of 
themselves desirable in productiveness and quality, is they 
come in about with the Crawford’s Early during the rush 
season when peaches sell at a lower price than they do earlier 
in the season or later in the season than Crawford’s Early. 
This new Van Deman peach ripens much earlier than 
Crawford, yet is of the Crawford type, therefore it must 
prove of great value to the market man who heretofore has 
not found any freestone yellow peach, which is so much 
desired and so long sought for. Average in size and shape, of 
a clear yellow color, overcast with red. 
CHAS. A. GREEN. 
Prices of Van Deman Peach Trees: Orchard Size, 3>£ 
to 434 ft., XX, 30c. each. Smaller Size, X, 234 to 3j4 
ft. 20c. each. Extra Size, XXX, 434 ft- and up, 50c. 
each. 
PARCEL POST:—We make a specialty of peach trees by 
parcel post. See page 57 for full list of varieties and prices. 
Parcel post trees are particularly recommended for distant 
states. A number of orchards along the Pacific Coast have 
been set with Green’s parcel post trees. 
Rochester. (Early Freestone.) The Rochester is a 
new, very early, yellow fleshed peach of 
the Crawford type. Ripens here the middle of August. 
Rochester has accomplished something notable. It has 
produced a new peach which is better in quality, more 
productive, more hardy in bud than any that have gone 
before. This is saying much, for there are many vari¬ 
eties of peaches. This new peach is called the Rochester 
peach. It has not been introduced with flourish or trum¬ 
pets or with advertising. Almost the first we hear of it 
it appears in our local markets by many wagon loads, 
outstripping all others of its season and outselling all in 
price. Marketmen seek the Rochester peach not only for 
its large size, its beauty, its deep yellow flesh tinged with red 
next to the stone, and its beautiful bright cheek, but for the 
further reason that it is a good keeper. Strange to relate, 
although the skin is tough, when the Rochester peach is dead 
ripe, you can peel off the skin much the same as is done at 
the canneries after dipping the peach in lye. It is of high 
quality. 
The Rochester peach bears fruit at a very early age. We 
drove out to the adjacent peach orchards and found trees 
two years old heavily laden with beautiful peaches. It is of 
the Crawford type, resembling the Crawford and the new 
Hale peach in appearance, but is earlier than Early Craw¬ 
ford, even earlier than Carman. When peach growers of 
other states become familiar with the Rochester peach, they 
will plant it for market and home use. 
CHAS. A. GREEN. 
Prices of Rochester Peach Trees: Orchard Size, 3>£ 
to \]/2 ft., XX, 50c. each. Smaller size, X, 234 to 334 
ft., 40c. each. Extra Size,XXX,434 ft. and up, 75c. each. 
Dresher, Pa., Nov. 24, 1916. 
Green’s Nursery Co.: 
The box of trees has arrived. I was surprised to get such 
nice, strong, healthy trees. The roots are superior and heavy. 
It will be ray fault if they do not grow. I have been buying 
trees of agents but the trees I get of you are far ahead of agents' 
trees and all others, and yet they were from one of your collec¬ 
tion combinations. I did not expect to get such good trees. 
August Maier. 
Van Deman Peaches—A High Quality Early Peach 
