PEACHES 
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THE GREENING NURSERY COMPANY 


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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. 

5 “Peaches 
The 2uich-Profit Fruit 
Cron—Made More 
Profitatle with 
“BuUD-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 be- 
tween 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 dis- 
eases and making available new varieties with 
merits of greater profit. 
Varieties following offer a wide range of the 
best varieties of the ripening season—a choice of 
exclusive Bud Selected strains, proven by prog- 
eny tests and by successful Peach growers as 
the leaders of the kind. 
The name in parenthesis following variety name 
is the name of the orchard from which propagating 
buds are taken from the parent tree. 


Bs) New 
EARLY HALEHAVEN 
(U. S. Plant Patent No. 325) 
A direct sport of the famous Halehaven which was 
originated by Mr. Stanley E. Johnson of the South 
Haven Experiment Station. This Early Halehaven 
limb sport is identical in size, quality, flavor, produc- 
tion, hardiness, to its mother parent Peach tree, but 
ripens a week to 10 days earlier. 
The blood lines of the New Early Halehaven 
originated in the South Haven Peach tree which the 
Greening Nurseries discovered and introduced to 
the American Fruit Growing Industry. The South 
Haven is the half parent of the Halehaven (South 
Haven x J. H. Hale). For the earlier market we 
know of nothing that even approaches this remark- 
able new variety in its season. Because it ripens 10 
days earlier than the Hale-Haven it comes on the 
market when prices are most advantageous. The 
good fruit grower will plant this variety in reason- 
able quantities in his future plantings. 

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Elberta (Barden No. 2). This is the aristocrat of Elbertas. 
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 toa 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. The fruit 
is large, color orange yellow, overspread with red. Flesh yel- 
low, 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 9). 
To Match Greening's Experience Would Take a Generation 
