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There is some variation in earliness; one of the crimson sorts blooms 
about ten days ahead of the regular type. The flowers are rarely frost 
bitten. Y oung trees two or three years old produce a very heavy crop of 
flow 'ers. One need not hesitate to cut all the flowers that are available on 
the tree, because they are produced on new wood each year. A heavy 
pruning after the tree has flowered makes a more compact and shapely tree. 
Spray of Flowering Peach Blossoms 
Among some of the newer varieties 
are Camelliaflora, also known as 
California Double Red, the finest of 
the double reds; Early Double Red, 
about ten days ahead o f the rest, with 
flowers of good size, double, slightly 
loose and rather light, clear red; Bur¬ 
bank and Clara Meyer, the two out¬ 
standing double pinks. Burbank is 
slightly larger, has large petals, opens 
flat and is deeper pink, while Clara 
Meyer is softer pink, nearly as large, 
petals smaller but more numerous and 
the flower is very full and tufted with 
ruffled petals. They are entirely dis¬ 
tinct, and one is about as fine as the 
other. 
There are several weeping varieties of Flowering Peach, single and 
double, in red, white and pink. They grow flat, or creeping if budded, or 
grafted low. If grafted on plum or peach understock, they make low, 
spreading, weeping trees. 
