THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA IN PEACH AND NECTARINE VARIETIES 
of the New Jersey Peach Coimcil. The 
two chief ohjectives of this organization 
are: 1. To encourage and support the 
scientific breeding of better varieties of 
peaches at the New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station, and 2. To provide a 
dependable and satisfactory means of 
Trees Now 
Following a decade of selection and 
commercial testing, the Peach Council 
now has available for planting a supply 
of trees of seven new peaches and one 
new nectarine. Fruits of all of the varie¬ 
ties have been offered for sale in both 
retail and wholesale markets, and they 
propagating and distributing trees of 
worthy new varieties to growers in order 
to insure to them the greatest possible 
benefits of the breeding program. 
All nursery trees offered to growers 
are propagated in cooperation with the 
Princeton Nurseries, Princeton, N. J. 
Available 
have consistently outsold the fruits of 
such old varieties as Carman and Slappey 
and even Elberta in many instances. A 
new era in high quality edible peaches is 
at hand. You cannot be behind the times 
in the selection of varieties and expect to 
remain in the peach business. 
It Will Pay to Buy Good New Varieties 
The old quick softening “wastey” varie¬ 
ties are no longer profitable. A new va¬ 
riety which has not been commercially 
tested for several years in more than one 
environment is just a gamble. It costs 
too much money to plant and bring an 
acre of peach trees to bearing age to have 
them prove to be “duds.” 
Good Varieties 
Large, high-colored, firm, good quality 
peaches this year have sold from $0.25 to 
more than $1.00 per bushel wholesale 
above old varieties such as Carman and 
are Worth More 
Slappey. Trees of the latter varieties 
would be costly as a gift and they will 
become more and more difficult to sell 
each year. 
Well Grown, H ealthy. Vigorous Trees are Worth More 
Under modern practices, approximately 
one hundred or a few more or less peach 
trees are planted to the acre. An addi¬ 
tional cost of a few cents per tree often 
discourages some growers from the pur¬ 
chase of high class stock. However, if the 
difference in price represents a better 
source of hud wood, a better and more 
uniform source of root stock and better 
handling of trees, it is cheap insurance. 
When small, weak, root mutilated, or 
partly dried out peach trees are pur¬ 
chased, the loss in dead and weak trees 
is sometimes as iiigh as ten per cent. The 
grower is not only faced with the trouble 
of replanting, hut also with an irregular 
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