The peaches of New York
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Example in this ebookThe present volume is the fifth in the plan of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station to make a more or less complete record of all of the different fruits grown in this region. This work differs from the preceding fruit-books but little or not at all in nature and purposes, yet a statement of its contents, even though it be almost identical with that in the prefaces of the preceding volumes, is necessary for those who may not have the other books and may be a convenience to those who have all of the series.The title implies that The Peaches of New York is written fo...
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- THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK BY U. P. HEDRICK
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I HISTORY OF THE PEACH
- THE ORIGIN OF THE PEACH
- HAS THE PEACH COME FROM THE ALMOND?
- THE PEACH IN ASIA
- THE PEACH IN EUROPE
- THE PEACH IN AMERICA
- SEEDLINGS GIVE WAY TO BUDDED TREES
- THE CARE OF THE PEACH IN COLONIAL TIMES
- ADAPTABILITY AND VARIABILITY IN THE PEACH
- CHAPTER II BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE PEACH
- PLACE OF THE PEACH IN THE GENUS PRUNUS
- TREE- AND FRUIT-CHARACTERS OF THE PEACH
- PRUNUS PERSICA Stokes.
- THE NECTARINE
- PRUNUS DAVIDIANA (Carrière) Franchet
- PRUNUS MIRA Koehne.
- PUBESCENT-FRUITED SPECIES OF PRUNUS FROM THE UNITED STATES
- HORTICULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE PEACH
- CHAPTER III COMMERCIAL PEACH-GROWING IN AMERICA
- Peach-Production in the United States, 1890-1910
- NEW TYPES OF PEACHES
- PEACH-PRODUCTS
- PEACH-YELLOWS
- PEACH-BREEDING
- CHAPTER IV PEACH-GROWING IN NEW YORK
- CLIMATE
- SOILS FOR PEACHES
- LOCATIONS AND SITES FOR PEACH-ORCHARDS
- STOCKS AND THE PROPAGATION OF PEACHES
- THE PEACH-ORCHARD AND ITS CARE
- HARVESTING, MARKETING AND PROFITS
- DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEW YORK PEACH-CROP
- COSTS IN GROWING PEACHES
- DISEASES OF THE PEACH
- INSECTS ATTACKING THE PEACH
- CHAPTER V LEADING VARIETIES OF PEACHES
- ADMIRAL DEWEY
- ALEXANDER
- ALTON
- ARP
- BELLE
- BEQUETTE FREE
- BERENICE
- BLOOD CLING
- BLOOD LEAF
- BRIGDON
- CANADA
- CAPTAIN EDE
- CARMAN
- CHAIRS
- CHAMPION
- CHILI
- CHINESE CLING
- CHINESE FREE
- CLIMAX
- CROSBY
- DAVIDSON
- EARLY CRAWFORD
- EARLY YORK
- EDGEMONT
- ELBERTA
- ENGLE
- EUREKA
- FAMILY FAVORITE
- FITZGERALD
- FOSTER
- GENERAL LEE
- GEORGE IV
- GOLD DROP
- GOVERNOR HOGG
- GREENSBORO
- HALE EARLY
- HEATH CLING
- HEATH FREE
- HILEY
- HYNES
- ILLINOIS
- IMPERIAL
- IRON MOUNTAIN
- J. H. HALE
- JENNIE WORTHEN
- KALAMAZOO
- LAMONT
- LARGE YORK
- LATE CRAWFORD
- LATE RARERIPE
- LEMON FREE
- LEVY
- LOLA
- MAMIE ROSS
- MAY LEE
- MORRIS WHITE
- MOUNTAIN ROSE
- Muir
- NIAGARA
- OLDMIXON CLING
- OLDMIXON FREE
- OPULENT
- PALLAS
- PEARSON
- PEENTO
- PROLIFIC
- RAY
- RED CHEEK MELOCOTON.
- REEVES
- RIVERS
- ROCHESTER
- ST. JOHN
- SALWEY
- SCHUMAKER
- SMOCK
- STEVENS
- STUMP
- SUMMER SNOW
- SURPASSE
- THURBER
- TRIANA
- TRIUMPH
- TROTH
- WADDELL
- WAGER
- WATERLOO
- WHEATLAND
- YELLOW RARERIPE
- CHAPTER VI THE MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES, WITH ABBREVIATIONS USED
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
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