BRIEF ACCURATE FACTS ABOUT THE VARIETIES 
Afterglow (N. J. 84) 
Elberta is still the most extensively 
grown commercial peach, hut is gradually 
losing favor with eastern consumers, par¬ 
ticularly in wet seasons and when grown 
in northern districts. The fruit is too 
often rather acid and hitter and lacking 
in 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, rovmd oval in 
form and hecome almost completely 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 Elberta at New Brunswick, N. J. 
An Outstanding New Nectarine 
Garden State 
(U. S. Plant Patent 92) 
The nectarine is a horticultural varia¬ 
tion of the peach which is centuries old. 
It is not a hybrid between the peach and 
the plum as is often erroneously stated. 
It is sometimes called a fuzzless peach 
because the skin is as free of pubescence 
as the plum. The pit or stone resembles 
that of a peach. The nectarine has been 
comparatively little cultivated because 
the fruit of the varieties available is too 
small and it has been difficult for growers 
to obtain large enough yields of large, 
smooth fruit. 
The Garden State Nectarine outclasses 
in size, color and quality all other named 
nectarines on the New Jersey Agricultural 
Experiment Station grounds, including 
Cardinal, Lord Napier, Surecrop, Gold¬ 
mine and Hunter. At New Brunswick, N. 
J., in 1938, one tree produced 6.5 sixteen 
quart baskets of fruit, or more than three 
bushels. Well developed specimens are 
two inches in diameter and above. 
The fruit attains an orange-yellow un¬ 
dercolor, overspread with red, several 
days before the fruit is firm ripe, making 
it an excellent shipping variety. It ripens 
at about the same season as the Golden- 
east and Hiley peaches and hangs well to 
the tree. 
The tree is a vigorous grower with dis¬ 
tinctive leaf characters. It is medium 
hardy and apparently adapted to regions 
with a climate similar to central and 
southern New Jersey. 
Nectarines often require more frequent 
and thorough spraying than the peach to 
prevent damage by curculio and brown 
rot. 
Garden State Nectarine 
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