The Besinning of a New Era in Peach 
and Nectarine Varieties 
The old varieties of peaches such as 
Greenshoro, Carman, Champion, and 
Early Crawford no longer meet modern 
ref|uirements. The demand today is for 
large, red all over, firm, attractive fruits 
that are as sleek and trim as a racehorse. 
Fruits blanketed to their “chins” in fuzz 
or peaches which are hard today and 
mush tomorrow are not wanted. The 
public wants peaches first of all that look 
appetizing and luscious and then prove 
to be as good as they look. 
The New Jersey 
The actual breeding of a new variety 
of peach is the first step in the improve¬ 
ment of salable fruit for the market. The 
second step is the propagation and dis¬ 
tribution of the variety true-to-name to 
practical growers, and its successful com¬ 
mercial culture and marketing. 
The New Jersey Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station and the New jersey State 
Horticultural Society realized in 1928 
that some coo]>erative organization was 
necessary to insure to the peach growers 
of the state the practical benefits of the 
peach breeding work. An organization of 
commercial growers was therefore formed 
Every Variety Offered H 
Every variety described and illustrated 
in this catalogue has been fruited for a 
minimum of ten years. Each has been 
grown upon the very light sandy soils of 
the Coastal Plain region of New Jersey 
and also in the loamy soils of central New 
Jersey and in the highlands of the state. 
The response of the varieties to various 
climatic, soil, nutritional and cultural 
High Quality^ White, 
Gain in 
The statement is frequently made that 
the eastern markets much prefer yellow- 
fleshed peaches to white. That may he 
true if large volume buyers only are con¬ 
sidered. The trend in large chain stores 
Since 1914, the New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station at New Brunswick 
has been conducting extensive breeding 
work with peaches to obtain varieties 
that will meet the modern public demand 
and to replace old varieties like Greens¬ 
boro, Carman, Champion, Slappey, and 
the Crawfords which are no longer profit¬ 
able in New Jersey. 
Beginning in 192.5, trees of named 
varieties from this breeding work have 
been available for commercial planting. 
Peach Council 
in 1928 and incorporated under the name 
of the New Jersey Peach Council. The 
two chief objectives 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 
j)ropagating 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 by the Peach 
Council in this catalogue have been prop¬ 
agated in cooperation with the Princeton 
Nurseries, Princeton, N. J. 
Had a Commercia I Test 
conditions has been observed in detail. 
They have actually received commer¬ 
cial field and market tests in addition 
to close study by well-known peach spe¬ 
cialists of many years’ experience. They 
have also been fruited in comparison 
with practically all other old and new 
varieties ripening at the same season and 
under similar conditions. 
Freestone Peaches Will 
Popularity 
is to standardize and regiment the selling 
of peaches so they can be handled as a 
general commodity like potatoes or snap 
beans. There are many pei'sons, however, 
who actually desire to buy fruits whose 
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