
PEACHES 
THE GREENING NURSERY COMPANY 

Peaches —The 2uich-Profit Fruit Cron— Made 
More Profitatle with “BUD-SELECTED”’ STRAINS 
Because Peaches come into bearing in three years, they are the quickest of all orchard trees to bear 
profitable crops. And because more trees can be planted per acre, the largest cash returns per acre can 
be expected. Used as fillers—set between permanent Apple trees—Peaches bring a quick profit from 
the orchard until the Apples come into bearing. 
As in other fruits, Greenings Bud Selection has played a star role in producing big profits from Peach 
orchards by improving varieties—maintaining standards—eliminating virus diseases and making avail- 
able new varieties with merits of greater profit. 
Varieties following offer a wide range of the best varieties of the ripening season—a choice of exclu- 
sive Bud Selected strains, proven by progeny tests and by successful Peach growers as the leaders of 
the kind. 
You play safe with Greenings trees—for Greening Bud Selected quality only has made Greening one 
of the largest growers of Peach trees in America—trees that are inbred with factors that mean the big- 
gest profit per tree and acre. 
The name in parenthesis following variety name ts the name of the orchard from which propagating 
buds are taken from the parent tree. 
Arp Beauty (South Haven Experiment Station). The Arp 
Beauty Peach was originated by G. P. Orr, Arp, Texas, about 
1897. The variety has been tested in a number of experimental 
stations, including Michigan, where it ranks as one of the earli- 
est yellow Peaches. The fruit is semi-cling and medium to large 
in size. The color is bright, attractive red and yellow. The 
flesh is clear yellow in color, fine grained and firm for an early 
Peach. Time of ripening is five or six weeks before Elberta. 
The quality is good, especially for slicing and the variety is 
recommended for roadside stand, local and truck trade. Trees 
are hardy and very productive when interplanted. Blossoms 
are self-fertile. 
Big Red (See Shippers Late Red). 
Champion (Warner No. 1). A white-fleshed Peach, very excel- 
lent in quality; attractive fruit, large. Creamy white, tender 
flesh, very pleasant flavor, having a peculiar honey taste. Stone 
semi-free to free. Ripens three weeks before Elberta. 
Cumberland. A splendid white Peach of excellent commercial 
value in localities where white Peaches are popular. Fruit is 
above medium in size, attractive in color and shape and good 
in quality and practically freestone. Ripens about 25 days 
before Elberta. 
Early Elberta (Eagle Point Farm). A bud selected strain of yel- 
low freestone Peach—similar to standard Elberta, except that 
it ripens about a week earlier and is somewhat smaller in size. 
Flesh lemon color with rich flavor. 

Wild Peach Pit 
No. 1 
Cannery Pit No. 2 


Early Halehaven. See page 11. 
Elberta (Barden No. 2). This is the aristocrat of Elbertas and 
you will agree when you see the beauty and perfection of this 
Peach. It is a true Elberta, prolific of yield and ideally suitable 
for shipping, but it has far better color than its predecessor 
and, through bud selection, we have reduced variation in the 
yield to a minimum. This parent tree at 10 years of age meas- 
ured 30 ft. across; it produces from 6 to 10 bushels of large size 
Elbertas each year and is absolutely free from Peach disease. 
This strain is the last word in high type Elbertas and should 
be planted in preference to all others. The fruit is very large, 
color orange yellow, overspread with red. Flesh yellow, stained 
with red near the pit, juicy, firm but tender, sweet or sub- 
acid, mild. Stonefree. Period or ripening varies with season. 
September 10th to 20th. 
Fertile Hale (See page 10). 
Gage-Elberta (Gage and Hawkins). Gage Elberta, as the name 
implies, is a true Elberta type, but this strain originated as 
a bud sport from an Elberta in the orchard of John Gage, 
Texico, Ill. The feature of the strain is its resistance to bac- 
teria infections. Seasons when Elberta and J. H. Hale are 
nearly defoliated and the Peaches badly injured the Gage trees 
show a marked contrast with their dark green foliage, practi- 
cally free from disease. The tree grows low, very spreading 
due to wide angle formation scaffold branches. Trees unusu- 
ally strong and do not break with heavy loads of fruit. Fruit 
ripens about 4 days later than Elberta. 
Gold Drop (Goodrich). Remarkably productive and hardy. 
This tree bears so heavily that the fruit will average small un- 
less the tree be heavily pruned, thinned of the young fruit and 
fertilized. This tends to throw more vitality into the remaining 
fruit. Many of our leading commercial varieties have a tend- 
ency to overbear, which is really an asset and not a serious 
fault. Medium in size, rounding, oval with unequal halves, 
bulged at one side. Cavity deep and abrupt. Pleasantly and 
sprightly flavored, excellent in quality. Freestone. Gold Drop 
should be in every commercial as well as home orchard. 
Ripens one week after Elberta. 
Golden Jubilee. Of the many Peaches originated by the New 
Jersey Experiment Station, none have aroused the interest of 
fruit growers, as has the Golden Jubilee. It is a large early yel- 
low Peach of the Elberta type and is an extremely popular 
early yellow Peach. It ripens about three weeks before Elberta 
and resembles Elberta in tree habits and fruit. The skin is yel- 
low blushed with red, flesh yellow, juice, tender, sweet, freestone. 
Another Reason for Greening’s Super-Quality Trees 
PEACH PIT PLANTER 
Another one of Greenings own inventions to improve 
quality, make possible enormous production of Peach trees. 
Plants 560,000 pits per day. We plant only the small, wild, 
natural pits (1). They have been found to be free from 
Peach Yellows, Little Peach, X Disease, Phony Peach, Red 
Suture and other virus diseases. That marked (2) is a 
domestic or “‘cannery’’ pit, more apt to carry disease. 
Greening ‘‘Bud-Selection” by grafting on these disease-free 
seedlings is just one more safeguard to the grower ! 

To Match Greening's Experience Would Take a Generation 
