. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, plants. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 16 WILLIAMS & BERNARDIN, PARSONS, KANSAS. Elberta, PEACHES, continued. Champion. Fruit large, beautiful in appearance ; flavor delicious, sweet, rich and juicy ; skin creamy white, with red cheek ; freestone. The peculiarity of this great acquisition is its hardiness ; it stood a temperature of i8 degrees below zero in the winter of 1SS7-8. and produced an abundant crop the following season ; and a
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, plants. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 16 WILLIAMS & BERNARDIN, PARSONS, KANSAS. Elberta, PEACHES, continued. Champion. Fruit large, beautiful in appearance ; flavor delicious, sweet, rich and juicy ; skin creamy white, with red cheek ; freestone. The peculiarity of this great acquisition is its hardiness ; it stood a temperature of i8 degrees below zero in the winter of 1SS7-8. and produced an abundant crop the following season ; and again injSgo produced a full crop, when the Peach crop was a universal failure. Aug. 15. Crawford's Early. This beautiful yellow Peach is highly esteemed for market purposes. Fruit very large, oblong ; skin yellow, with fine red cheek ; flesh yellow, juicy, sweet and excellent; productive ; free. July i. Crawford's Late. Fruit of the largest size ; skin yellow, or greenish yellow, with dull red cheek ; flesh yellow ; productive. One of the best ; free. Late August and September. Crosby. Medium size, roundish, with distinct seam on blossom end ; skin light golden yellow and very downy ; flesh bright yellow and rather firm. Ripens between Early and Late Crawford. Tree of rather dwarfish habit. Has won special favor on account of great hardiness. A recent introduction that has attracted very wide atten- tion on account of its disposition to produce good crops in "off" years," when other varieties usually fail. Carman. Large, somewhat oblong, resembling its probable sister, the great Elberta ; the tree also resembles this variety. Pale yellow, covered for the most part with a deep blush, while the skin is very tough ; the flesh is quite juicy and tender, with a fine flavor, and a freestone. Its time of ripening is exactly that of Early Ri^•ers. Early York. Medium size ; greenish white, covered in the sun with dull red ; flesh greenish white, very tender. Elberta. A
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