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Hunter—is said to have come from an Elberta pit. The tree is vigorous and 
productive. The fruit is large, round, yellow with a heavy blush. The flesh 
is free from the stone, with the true nectarine flavor, although somewhat 
tart. It ripens in midseason, 
John Rivers—is an early variety, ripening the first week of August. The tree 
is small but productive. The fruit is of medium size, nearly covered with 
red, and is of very good quality; the flesh is white and adherent to the 
stone. This variety begins the nectarine season. 
Rivers Orange—is a yellow-fleshed nectarine which ripens in early mid- 
season. The fruit is a freestone nearly covered with a dark red blush. No 
nectarine has a richer, sweeter flavor. This is one of the choicely good 
European sorts. 
Sure Crop—was imported from New Zealand by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture and so far is the most promising nectarine at the New York 
Experiment Station. The tree is vigorous and productive. The fruits are 
large, roundish, white and overlaid with very attractive red. The flesh is 
firm, tender, free from the stone, and very pleasing in flavor; late mid- 
season. If only one nectarine can be grown Sure Crop should be selected. 
PREACHES 
Thanks mainly to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and the 
Horticultural Experiment Station, Vineland, Canada, we now have a succes- 
sion of peaches thruout the peach season. 
Mikado—is the most popular, very early yellow. The tree is medium in size 
and vigor and is productive. The fruit ripens the first week of August, is 
medium in size, round in shape, semi-cling, and attractive yellow blushed 
with red. The quality is good. Mikado is pollen-sterile and therefore re- 
quires cross-pollination. 
+Redhaven—a seedling of Halehaven crossed with Kalhaven, was introduced 
by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station in 1940. It is a highly- 
colored, yellow-fleshed, freestone peach ripening a few days before Golden 
Jubilee or about with Oriole. It has good fruit quality and its flesh is very 
firm for an early peach. The trees set heavy crops and require thorough 
thinning or undersized fruit may result. 
The following varieties are recent introductions of merit from the New 
Jersey Experiment Station: 
Delicious—is a white-fleshed seedling of Belle. The tree is vigorous and pro- 
ductive. Fruit is of the Belle type, medium to large in size and very at- 
tractive; flesh medium firm, good or above in quality, and free from the 
stone. Delicious is in season just ahead of Carman and surpasses that 
variety in appearance and quality. 
Golden Jubilee—a second generation seedling of Elberta and Greensboro, is 
a large early peach, It resembles Elberta in shape, but is better in quality 
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