The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-19
THE STATE HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
Report of Committee Examining the
New Early Peaches.

New Early Peaches.
Your committe find on exhibition
one variety by 81. E. Van Demau,
Geneva; three varieties by E. j.
Nugent, Ottawa: one variety by
Frank Page, Garnet; two varieties
by j. L. Williams, OsWego; two
The names so far as determined are
given, and report of committee as
to size, color and quality, followed
by history or origin, etc, by the ex-
hibitOr.
VAN DEMAN's EARLY.
Size, medium color, light; quail
ty, fair +; pit partly adheres to flesh
fruit ripening June 18Th worthy of
trial.
HiStOry.-The samples shown are
from neglected nursery grown trees,
all similar in general appearance and
having the same period of ripening.
These trees are in crowded rows,
which prevents the circulation of
the air, and have had no culture
during the past two years, conse-
quently the samples are compare
lively deficient in size, flavor and
color. This 1S7S) is their first year
of fruiting.
NUGENT's JUNE.
Mugent'S Seeding No. 1.-Size,
medium; color, red cheek on the
sun side and greenish yellow oppo-
site; flesh, ereenlsh white; quality
good a cling stone, ripening July
lst; first fruiting 1877.
OTTAWA EARLY.
Nuqent'S Seeding No. 2-Size,
medium color, dull red on greenish
base; quality, fair; quite promis-
ing in appearance; first fruiting
1877.
NUGENT's 18th JUNE.
Nugent's Seeding No. 3.-Size,
medium; color, deep red, ON white
base; quality good; ripening June
18th.
Htstory.-No. was grown from
seed planted between apple trees in
orchard, without any special culture
and bore fruit last year for the first
time. The fruit is fine meated,
high colored, sweet and high flavor
ed.
No. 2 was grown from the seed
on unbrOken sod withot any cult
ure, not even q hoe ever used about
the tree; bore for the first time last
year. Fruit good favored, free
stone and large size.
No. 3 was grown on unbroken
sod without culture. 1t is of good
quality and fruited this year for the
first time.
All three varieties were original
ed by E. j. Nugent, of Ottawa.
TOWNS EARLY.
Size, above medium color, dark
red cheek on yellowish white base
quality, good; highly recommend
cd for trial; partially adherlng to
the pit.
Hastory.-In August, 1874, the pits
of three Hale's Early were planted
where the peaches were eaten; two
of the peaches were fully ripened,
the other was not. All were plant
ed in calcareous soil, in good con-
dition, within few feet of each
other. The samples on exhibition
were picked from the trees grown
from the pits of the full ripe peach
es. The tree grown from the pit of
the unripe peach produces late,
inferior fruit.
TWO VARIETIES BY j. L. WILLIAMS.
Seeding No. 1 (not named) re-
sembles the Amsden June in every
respect.
Seeding No. 2 (named Majors
Early) cannot be distinguished from
the Alexander, except in color.
HSStOTy.-No. 1 originated with
DR.. Ellis. twelve miles west of Os-
wego. Samples were taken from
two-year-old trees; fruit ripening
June 10Th.
No. 2 (Majors' Early) originated
in the garden of Mr.. Majors, at o.
wego. Tree vigorous, under ordi-
nary orchard culture samples were
taken from trees two years old. 1t
is claimed for this peach that, COM
ing in Immediately after the Alex
ander, it will prove a valuable &C
QUESTION, ripening fully fifteen days
before the Hale's Early.
TWO VARIETIES BY R. MILLIKEN.
No. l resembles the Amsden, but
ripening in advance of it; flavor
aud appearance fine. Recommend
ed for trial.
No. 2 is locally known as the
E'Emporia," fair, early peach, rip
ening ten days in advance of the
Amsden. Recommended for trial.
HsSt0ry.-No. 1. The seeding
peaches exhibited by Simon Bucher,
living twelve miles southeast of EN-
poria, are from q lot of seedlings
consisting of about ten thousand
trees, about twenty or twenty-five
of which are of the same character
as this plate of samples. The seed
was not selected with any care as to
kind and are purely accidental.
Ripe June 18th.
No. 2 is an accidental Seeding
tree found on the farm of Mrs.
Louisa Burns, one mile northeast of
the city of Emporis, Lyon county.
The tree is seven or eight years old
and stands on low bottom land,
about fifty feet from the Neosho
river and within a few feet of the
banks of an old channel or bayou,
filled with water three-fourths of
the year. An untrimmed hedge,
now as high as the tree, stands be-
tween it and the bayou on the north
and an orchard thirty or forty rods
in width protects on the south side.
Attention was first attacted TO this
tree in 1876 and an account was
given to this society by III. e. Van
Deman at the eleventh annual meet
ing in 1877. (See p. n, Vol. VIII,
Kansas Horticultural Report) The
first ripening of fruit was this year,
June 18th. 1 believe it to be ten
Haya narlior than tho a MADAM .TnnQ