. Harrison & Sons' nurseries . GE—Originated in the famous peach belt of Delaware (Kent county). A heavy andregular bearer. White flesh, red blush, juicy and sweet. Excellent shipper and is a moneymaker in the locality in which it originated. Tree extremely hardy and vigorous grower. DELAWARE—A seedling of Mountain Rose, but much earlier. Of large size and fineappearance, with a delicateiy flushed skin, shaded Avith red. Flesh is white, and of a rich flavorand juicy; a perfect freestone and very producti\^e. A better shipper than Mountain Rose,handling quite as wel 1 as Troth, than Avhich
. Harrison & Sons' nurseries . GE—Originated in the famous peach belt of Delaware (Kent county). A heavy andregular bearer. White flesh, red blush, juicy and sweet. Excellent shipper and is a moneymaker in the locality in which it originated. Tree extremely hardy and vigorous grower. DELAWARE—A seedling of Mountain Rose, but much earlier. Of large size and fineappearance, with a delicateiy flushed skin, shaded Avith red. Flesh is white, and of a rich flavorand juicy; a perfect freestone and very producti\^e. A better shipper than Mountain Rose,handling quite as wel 1 as Troth, than Avhich. howcAer, it is much larger and of more attractive,coloring, as well as earlier. It comes in just when a good shipping peach is needed, when Hale*Early is about over and Troth beginning to ripen. HYNES SURPRISE—True freestone Avhen ripe; resists rot better than Hales Early,which it resembles. I^berta peacli has already been -well tested a^id is one of tlie most profitable marked varieties. i6 HARRISONS NURSERIES, BERLIN, CARMAN—A peach of Xorth China type that promises great value. The originator say3it is either a seedlinH-ot or a sister to EU)crta: tree of same habit of growth, only has largerand darker colored foliage Tree hardy and productive and fruit practically rot proof, asoriginal tree, standing in low. wet ground, has perfected its fruit two seasons, while othervarieties all about ha^?e rotted entirely. Carman is described as large, broad, oval in form,pointed: skin yellowish white, dotted and flushed red; flesh creamj- white, slightly tinged red.•of a sprightly vinoustlavor. The Rtiral New Yorl^er first describedit some years ago as an extralarge, yellow peach, like Elberta. only five weeks earlier: it certainly is of Elberta type, but it3s not strictly a yellow, neither is it Avhite. The Texas Farm and Rhuch says : ?Carman peachis of large size, oblong, resembling Elberta, and is the best flavored esLvly peach we know; theskin Is tough, and it is jus
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