The daily gazette., 1875-07-26
The Peaches,
TIE EXPECTED QUALITY AND VARIETY
OF THIS SEASONS SHIPMENTS.

The EXPECTED QUALITY AND VARIETY
OF THIS SEASONS SHIPMENTS.
From an interesting peach letter ia
thePhiladelphia Times we make the fol
lowing extract:
Although few premature peaches
nave been shipped from points on the
renlnsuia, the marketing of the fruit
Will not begin until the middle Of next
week, with the first shipment of the
Hales. The present weather is very
favorable for this variety, which -ots
easily with rain, and is always picked
green to prevent this. It is likely
that there will be a large yield Of
Hales and they will be the most re-
munerattve OF any variety to the grow
ers Tor several obvious reasons, We
nave taken the trouble to obtain s.
carefully-arranged estimate of the
yield OF each variety, and the Hales
are put down at 100000 baskets. It
Is not very excellent peach, though
demanded with eagerness as a first
taste OF the year. When the Hales
have all been marketed an interval of
two or three days will occur, when
tho "Trophy"-a very excellent vari-
city OF white peach--will come on
about the 8th of August, of which it
is estimated SOC, 900 baskets will reach
the markets. Following this, August
10Th, is the "Early York" variety and
its genus, the most delicious and best.
Favored of all the yield, a iuicy. red.
white peach. Along with it. and
only an offshoot from the York, is
the new variety, the Mountain Rose"
About a million baskets of York and
Rose will be shipped. When the Y orks
have almost been exhausted, about
August goth, the first of the delicious
yellow peaches, the Early Crawford,
large variety, will begin to appear.
With these, and much like them, but
larger-in fact, the largest peaches
grown, some of them measuring 20
inches i'll circumlerence-will appear
the Susquehanna and the Reeves. -
They are all offshoots of the old Ma
laccatoon fruit. These peaches, among
epicures, are considered theaRs pIQs
ultra of the fruit, and always command
the very best of prices. quite a good
crop of them are grown this year, and
they will be plenty. About seven
hundred thousand baskets will be
shipped. ..4
The growers will send this fruit to Eu-
rope on Pennsylvania line, if practicable,
Immediately following these, near the
first of September, will come the Old
nixon and the Stump of the World,"a
large white peach. There are more of
this variety of peaches than any other,
and whenever glut has occurred in the
market previously, it has been during
the shipment of these peaches. When
they ripen, fruiC will be very cheap, and
IS not unlikely that on account Of low
prices the growers will refuse to ship
any more until they have disappeared.
Not less than two million baskets, and
more, of this class of fruit will
be shipped. Generally, when the Mizor
nave been disposed of, an interval Of
some days occurs before shipments are
again heavy, when the late ''Crawfords"
appear, of which there are a great many
They come on about September and
bout milGon.a and ahal3wiu temarketed
When they disappear the "Henpens"
,each, Of only medium quality begin to
5, after 100000 have been shipped. Then
he Smock," the best peach to keep
ound and much used in canning, will
.ome on. These peaches are senerslly
Tery profitable, as they keep we'll and
nay be reshipped after few days delay
Many Of them will this year be sent
Vest and to Eurcps. They are not
irst-class peach, Dlit on account Of their
olidity are much grown. aud not les
han l2O, 600 will lie sent from the Pen
nsula. These generally close up the
leavy shipments, only few small white
peaches coming on and continuing until
October L. when the season. closes. Du~
ing the later weeks Of the season the
Hearts, avery firm, nice, white peach
ire matured. They are canned extern
ensively and are the best of the closing
1t is thought that 1900, 900 baskets
# the crop will be canned, as the Bal
imore Gamers are making extensive
and very large quanti-
v will be canned on the Peninsula
lbout SOC, 600 baskets will be shared
etween the two bays. The largest
each-growing district in the world is
he country about Middletown. Here
ives 8. F. Shallcross, who has TOO
cres in peaches, and 70, 600 trees. He
vill ship 49, 900 baskets. Governor
ohm p. Cochran who has 500 acres
nd $4,000 trees, will send $4,000
askets to market. George Clemment
ear Smyrna, who has about the same
will ship 1000 baskets. E. W. Will
ins. Kent county Md. has 1 ,000a
nd will ship 200, 200 baskets, and Il.
Ierkin, who has so, 900 trees, will ship
OO, 600 baskets. This is merely an in
omplete list, but will give some idea
f the extent to which the growing OF
caches is carried on by individual
WO,aderfifI EScQDe.