This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...to the esteem of fruit-growers, possibly the most notable is hardiness in tree and bud so marked that it is often called the "frost-proof" peach. Besides hardiness, the trees have to recommend them vigor, health, and productiveness. 168 EARLY CRAWFORD EARLY WHEELER The rich, yellow, freestone peach is delicious to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...to the esteem of fruit-growers, possibly the most notable is hardiness in tree and bud so marked that it is often called the "frost-proof" peach. Besides hardiness, the trees have to recommend them vigor, health, and productiveness. 168 EARLY CRAWFORD EARLY WHEELER The rich, yellow, freestone peach is delicious to the taste either as a dessert or as a culinary fruit. In these days of showy fruits, however, Crosby falls far short in appearance, as the peaches run small, are somewhat irregular, and are covered with dense tomentum. Still, at their best, in soils to which the tree is perfectly suited, the peaches are handsome. But there is another fault--the variety accommodates itself but poorly to trying soils and climates, failing especially in poor soils and dark climates. The tree is distinguished by its willowy growth, small leaves, small flowers, and, as has been said, by hardiness. Crosby was sent out about 1876 by a Mr. Crosby, Billerica, Massachusetts. Tree small, vigorous, spreading, open-topped, unusually hardy, very productive. Leaves small and narrow, 5% inches long, 1% inches wide, obovatelanceolate, thin; margin finely serrate or crenate; teeth tipped with dark brownish-red glands; petiole M inch long, with 2-7 rather small, renitorm, greenish-yellow glands. Flowers midseason, pale pink, darker near the edges, 1 inch across. Fruit late; 2 % inches in diameter, round-oblate, compressed, bulged near the apex, with unequal sides; cavity deep, flaring, sometimes splashed with red; suture shallow; apex rounded, with a sunken, mucronate tip; color orange-yellow, often blushed over much of the surface with dull red, splashed and striped with darker red; pubescence long, thick, coarse; skin thick, tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh deep yellow...
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Add this copy of Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits to cart. $37.30, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1922 by MacMillan, NY.
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Good+ 1922 first edition. Bound in green library buckram, with library marks on the bottom of the spine and library ink stamps inside the covers. Some shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges and corners. With over 300 illustrations, including photographic illustrations of fruit varieties. There are several color photographs as well. An excellent reference work.; 370 pages.
