. Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : your 1941 guide to better fruits and more beautiful homes. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs. PLANT. THIS YEAR ERLY-RED-FRE FRUITS RIPENS WITH RED BIRD; 3 to 4 WEEKS BEFORE GOLDEN JUBILEE; 6 to 7 WEEKS BEFORE ELBERTA GROWING WORLD ONE OF THE GREATEST EAR- LY PEACHES OF ALL TIME. We have tried not to be over enthusiastic about this peach, prefering to let others boost it after they have grown it under their own conditions. Statements such as we list here from all sections of the country attes
. Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : your 1941 guide to better fruits and more beautiful homes. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs. PLANT. THIS YEAR ERLY-RED-FRE FRUITS RIPENS WITH RED BIRD; 3 to 4 WEEKS BEFORE GOLDEN JUBILEE; 6 to 7 WEEKS BEFORE ELBERTA GROWING WORLD ONE OF THE GREATEST EAR- LY PEACHES OF ALL TIME. We have tried not to be over enthusiastic about this peach, prefering to let others boost it after they have grown it under their own conditions. Statements such as we list here from all sections of the country attest to its adaptability and the general satisfaction you can expect from your ERLY-RED-FRE trees. PLANT YOUR ORCHARD OF ERLY-RED-FRE THIS YEAR. The "ERLY-RED-FRE" originated as a chance seed- ling in the orchard of Wm. Perry near Chase City, Va. Apparently the "ERLY-RED-FRE" is the results of the planting of a Red Bird Peach Seed planted fall of 1928. Our attention was first called to this splendid peach in 1935. The second generation trees bore in 1937 at 2 years of age, the fruits on these being identical with those on the Parent tree. The original tree and second generation trees both bore a heavy crop in 1938, it being necessary to thin the fruit on all trees. These same trees repeated in 1939, having a normal crop on them which was thinned lightly, when other varie- ties in the same orchard were killed out almost entirely with late frosts. The fruit is very highly colored with an attractive bright red on a creamy white background. The skin is tough and medium thick. The flesh of the peach is of such texture that it does not show bruises through the skin for several days after being bruised and is a clear white through to the pit. We believe this peach has one of the smallest pits of any cultivated peach we know of in existence. The fruit averages large for an early peach, some specimens weighing 12 ounces and the entire crop under normal conditions and ca
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