Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest (J Fruit Var & Hort Digest)
Volume 15 Number 1 Article 12 Pages: 16-16
Year 1960 Month 9
Title: Peach Varieties in Indiana
Author: E.J. Downing Citation
Abstract:
With us, Fairhaven and Jubilee are
not too far apart on bud hardiness,
but .Tubilee sizes up at picking time
and Fairhaven does not.
Fairhaven is
not the variety we will set again. Halehaven is so erratic in its behavior on
our soil that we no longer try to grow
it.
We use Burbank July Elberta instead,
which is better in every respect
so far as color, quality and hardiness
are concerned.
However, it does seem
to have brown rot susceptibility.
Most of the New Jersey peaches are
too tender, with a few notable exceptions.
Pioneer is hardiest of all whites
except Marquette (and that one is too
fuzzy). Cumberland and Radiance are
hardy, as in Eclipse.
Triogen might
pass muster—it sure is a desirable
peach.
Of the Merrill peaches, we have not
had 49er, but we have fruited Merrill's
June, Beauty, Golden Rose, and
Gold Rush. All have good quality, are
reasonably hardy in bud, but have all
quickly shown damaged wood in subzero
temperatures.
We have but one tree of Loring, a
good peach, but not dependably
hardy.
I suspect that this variety may
need careful regulation of nutrients
because of its erratic susceptibility to
low temperature injury. Ozark seems
dependably hardy, a good producer,
with pleasing quality and a near ideal
tree, but the fruit is not too attractive.
—E. J. Downing, Downing Fruit
Farm, Rte. 1, New Madison, Ohio.
