PEACHES 
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Crawford Early. Early mid-season. The Peach has all 
the characteristics which gratify the taste, richness of 
flavor, pleasant aroma, tender flesh and abundant 
juice. Besides being one of the best in quality, it is 
also one of the handsomest, its golden yellow skin 
with red cheek making it particularly attractive to 
the eye. Stone perfectly free. The flesh is a beautiful 
deep yellow, rayed with red at the pit. The trees are 
all that could be desired in health, vigor, size and 
shape. 
Cra%irford Late. Season late. The quality of this yel¬ 
low flesh variety can scarcely be equalled. The Peach 
is large with a golden yellow skin and rich red cheek. 
The flesh is yellow, red at pit, juicy, firm but tender, 
sweet but sprightly, richly flavored. Stone free. The 
tree is large, vigorous, spreading, open topped and 
adapted to a wide range of soil and climatic condi¬ 
tions. 
Crosby. Late. One of the Crosby’s greatest virtues is 
the liardiness of tree and bud, so marked it is often 
called the “frost-proof Peach.” Besides being hardy 
the trees are vigorous, healthy and productive. Qual¬ 
ity fruit is excellent. The rich, yellow free-stone flesh 
is delicious to the taste either as a dessert or as a 
culinary fruit. Tree is small but vigorous and straight. 
Elberta. Season late September and October. One of 
Elberta’s greatest merits is its adaptability to a 
variety of soils and climates. A second good charac¬ 
teristic is its fruitfulness—barring frost and freezes, 
the trees load themselves with fruit year in and year 
out. Thus Elberta is grown with profit in every 
Peach growing state in the Union and in nearly all, if 
not all, in greater quantities than any other Peach. 
The skin is orange-yellow, overspread with red. Flesh 
yellow stained with red at the pit, juicy, firm but 
tender, sweet or sub-acid and of excellent quality and 
a good shipper. The tree is large, vigorous, hardy, 
very productive and starts bearing when quite young. 
Stone free. 
Fitzgerald. Midseason. Fitzgerald is very similar to 
early Crawford but generally ripens a few days earlier. 
The skin is golden, overspread with dull red blush; 
thin but tough. Flesh yellow rayed with red at the 
it, juicy, rather firm but tender and sweet, pleasant 
avor and good quality. Size large; stone free. Tree 
of medium size. Extremely hardy. Originated in 
Canada. 
Golden Jubilee. A new peach that is attracting atten¬ 
tion everywhere introduced. A large, early Elberta 
type. Skin is yellow blushed with red; flesh is yellow, 
juicy, tender and sweet. Ripens three weeks earlier 
than Elberta. Free stone. One of the best of the new 
varieties. 
Greensboro. Early. Greensboro is one of the leading 
white flesh peaches. It takes high place because of its 
showy fruits and its large, vigorous, healthy early 
bearing and prolific trees. In the last character 
Greensboro is almost supreme—invariably year in 
and year out—possibly, too, no other white fleshed 
Peach is adapted to a greater variety of soils; its fruits 
carrv well and keep long. The skin is creamy white 
blush stained with red. Flesh white, very juicy, 
tender, melting, sweet, and sprightly. Stone semi- 
clinging. 
Hale. Midseason. This Peach has many merits to 
commend it. The flesh is yellow, red pit, juicy, fine 
grained, sweet, and of excellent flavor. The skin is 
creamy yellow, overspread with darker red making it 
particularly attractive to the eye. In shape it is al¬ 
most round which means it can be packed to better 
advantage than many other varieties. Stone free. 
The tree is vigorous and productive. Unquestionably 
Hale is one of the most popular varieties for both 
home and orchard planting. 
Halehaven. A brand new peach that has proven 
itself one of the very best midseason peaches ever 
introduced. Ripens just before Elberta. Halehaven 
has inherited the mammoth size of J. H. Hale and 
being originated in Michigan, will withstand the most 
severe winters. Halehaven has a fine flavor, being 
tender, juicy, melting, sw^eet and sprightly. Hale¬ 
haven has every quality desirable in a peach. 
Heath Cling. Very late. One of the latest Peaches 
now under cultivation. The best of all Peaches to 
preserve and pickle whole. It has been known to keep 
in good condition from October to December. The 
trees are large, healthy and hardy. Skin is creamy 
white blushed with red. Flesh white, juicy, firm, 
■ meaty but tender and good in quality. Stone clinging. 
Rochester. Early. Here is a variety which fills the 
long desired wdsh of fruit growers for an early, yellow 
free stone. It ripens soon after middle August—in 
some instances it has been reported even earlier—and 
its season is very long. The Peaches are very large, 
yellow with handsome over-color of mottled red, 
quite rotund, making, all in all, a strikingly beautiful 
Peach. The flesh, too, meets all the requirements of a 
good Peach—thick and firm, marbled yellow, stained 
with red at the pit, juicy, rich and sweet. The 
variety can be classed as freestone. The trees are 
large, vigorous, upright, spreading and productive. 
South Haven. Extremely hardy and productive. The 
Peach for cold localities will stand 10 degrees colder 
w^eather than any other Peach grown. Large, yellow, 
freestone, full red cheeks. Texture tender. Week 
earlier than Elberta. 
Yellow St. John. Early. This is one of the earliest of 
the Crawford-like Peaches and perfectly free-stone. 
Handsome in appearance, sw^eet, rich, delicious in 
flavor and pleasing in all of the flesh attributes of a 
good dessert Peach. The fruit resembles the early 
Craw'ford in size and shape but is a little more round 
and ripens several days earlier. Flesh light yellow 
tinged wdth red near pit, highly flavored. Tree me¬ 
dium to large, vigorous, upright and spreading. 
Valiant. Midseason. The large, roundish oblate fruit, 
blushed wdth an appetizing red, meets with instant 
favor. Its juicy flesh is blessed with a rich, delight¬ 
ful superior flavor — a thousand times better than its 
ancestor, Elberta. 
Producing heavy crops and jxissessing the extra 
hardiness that is required to grow' Peaches in Canada, 
as well as splendid shipping qualities, it measures up 
to every requirement. 
Valiant is in season by the first of September, about 
ten days aRer Rochester Peach and fifteen days ahead 
of Elberta, just at the time w'hen Peaches are in the 
biggest demand and sell at highest market prices. 
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