BRIEF ACCURATE FACTS ABOUT THE VARIETIES 
Summercrest 
Afterglow (N. J. 84) 
Ell)erta is still the most exteiisiv('lv 
<»:rown commercial peach, hut is i^radiially 
losing favor with eastern consumers, par¬ 
ticularly ill wet seasons ami when grown 
ill northern districts. The fruit is too 
often rather acid and hitter and lacking 
ill peach aroma and flavor. Afterglow as 
grown in New Jersey is distinctly less acid 
and hitter and of higher peach flavor. 
Furthermore, eastern markets are not in¬ 
frequently well supplied with peaches at 
the Elherta season. A peach which ripens 
from 3 to 5 days after Elherta, therefore, 
often meets a cleared and stronger market. 
The fruits are large, round oval in 
form and heconie almost comjiletely over¬ 
spread with red color. The flesh is yel¬ 
low, stained with red about the pit and 
free. The trees of Afterglow are more 
vigorous and the fruit buds and trees 
have been more winter hardy than J. H. 
Hale and Elherta at New Brunswick, N. J. 
Afterglow Peaches Are Red All Over and “Air” Free About the Pit 
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