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PEACHES and
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Union Orchard and Nursery Co.

B. F. MASON, Proprietor
MARTINSVILLE, INDIANA

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80 TO A BUSHEL

Copyright 1914 by B. F. Mason.

A Few Words on the Subject of
PEACHES and PEACH
GROWING

♦fTN peach culture there is a poetical side and a practical side. There
| is beauty and there is utility. But the practical side comes in for
consideration first. But how wonderfully easy it all is. Mother
Earth reaches out to us her indulgent arms, loaded with abundance,
with smiles upon her rugged face. But we must stay close to Nature.
Our soil and surroundings must be reduced to original conditions.
Think of the time when the virgin soil, full of humus, potash and
peaches, shot the young peach tree with its spreading branches quickly
upward and almost as quickly bloomed and bent to our fore-parents
her fragrant boughs loaded with perfect fruit. The same sun still
srpnes upon us and the same breezes shake the leaves as did then.
But the “bugs” have come, and the diseases too, and the “bug-bears”
too, and they are the worst of all for they never came at all, and we
only imagine them, and the climate may have changed some in position.
So we remove the bugs and chase away the diseases with the spray
pump, and we keep abreast of the progress in Horticulture by dis-
carding the old and effete varieties and planting the new, the hardier
and the good and the TESTED of the new generation of peaches. This
is why we show you the pictures of the Shippers’ Late Red peach trees
in this little booklet and show you how EASY it is to grow this won-
derful fruit.

LOCATION

Our location is most favorable for growing the best possible peach
trees. The soil is such as produces the best root system, matures the
trees early, and forms as perfect a peach tree as can be grown.

Martinsville has thr^e R. R. and Freight Lines, three Express
Companies and is in easy access by freight and express with all parts
of the world.

SHIPPING

We ship to every state and territory in the Union and to foreign
countries, including England. France, Italy, Australia, etc., and guar-
antee safe arrival in good condition. Packing is done in the most
perfect and thorough manner, and shipments to long distances are as
safe as if you lived in an adjoining county. We have over 1200 patrons
in our home county who have planted the Shippers’ Late Red peach
trees,

THE SHIPPERS’ LATE RED PEACH

While we make a specialty of growing the Shippers’ Late Red
peach trees, because it is the most valuable of all peaches, and can

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not be obtained except from us, the originator, we grow all the leading
varieties of peach trees, in large quantities, and can supply them in
car lots or any desired quantities, also apple and other fruit trees and
all branches of nursery stock, and are ready to make estimates on
your wants in any of the items of General Nursery Stock, but if you
want to grow peaches, the best peaches in the world, and have them
all the time, then plant the SHIPPERS’ LATE RED.

INSPECTION

All shipments have Certificate of Inspection attached from the
State Entomologist, and all stock is healthy and vigorous when it
•eaves our Nurseries.

UNION ORCHARD & NURSERY CO.,
Martinsville, Ind. B. F. Mason, Proprietor.

Original tree of the Shippers’ Late Red peach I9»years old, and
has produced over $260.00 worth of peaches

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I1N EACH growing is in its infancy. There is nothing complex or diffi-
ll*' cult about it and all that is needed to make peach growing an easy
an'd entire success is to Start Right, and follow a few correct basic
principles, and there is far less difficulty or risk in growing peaches
than in the average farm crops.

NECESSARY FEATURES

The main essentials to consider in the planting of peach trees are
the location, time and manner of planting, varieties, after culture,
pruning, spraying, and marketing. Of these the most vital and of
greatest lasting importance is the matter of correct varieties. If
proper and best varieties are planted, other good methods can follow
with favorable results; if poor and tender or short lived varieties are

Budding Shippers’ Late Red peach trees with buds froru the bear-
ing trees. Over 200, 000 Shippers' Late Red peach trees in
the field. Nothing else in the block. No chance for rpixtures.

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Block of Shippers’ Late Red peach trees, just the right size for
planting.

planted, or those not adapted to your climate and soil, n'o methods of
culture and care can ever insure the highest success.

LOCATION

The location of the Peach Orchard is of some importance, but not
as great as usually attached to it. The peach succeeds best on soil that
is free from stagnant water and there is some difference as to the
elevation and slopes in regard to frost drainage, but the peach will
succeed on almost any soil that will produce a crop of corn or wheat.
Of course as in other crops the better the soil the better the peaches.
It is not at all compulsory that the soil for peach growing be rich
wffien1 the trees are planted, as it is no difficult matter to improve the
soil in a peach orchard to almost any desired fertility after planting
if proper methods of cultivation, cover crops and fertilizing are main-
tained. Where the writer now has the most productive an’d valuable
peach orchard in Indiana, the soil at the time of planting was so poor
both naturally and from neglect, erosion1 and winter tramping, that it

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would not have produced any valuable crop and, in fact, had been
abandoned; row the soil is rich and deep and if the trees were removed
and planted to corn would produce 100 or more bushels to the acre.
Peach trees n-aturally enrich the soil by shading it and adding their
leaves to it, and even on hilly land after the roots are established,
erosion is checked. Deep cultivation is more serviceable and effectual,
too, in preventing washin’g than shallow cultivation. Winter cover
crops of rye and vetch should always be employed and are of great
value in preventing erosion and adding humus and nitrogen to the soil.

PLANTING

Early in the Spring or late in the Autumn are either one good
season's for planting the peach. If planted in the spring the pruning,
cutting back, should be done at once at time of planting, but if in the
Pall the trees should be banked up v ith soil for the winter and trimmed
early in the Spring.

Orchard of Shippers’ Late Red peach, 30 rrjontbs from planting,
with raspberries between the peach trees. This orchard
averaged $1.10 per tree at this tiroe.

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Peach tree planted for ornament and shade in the front lawn,
yields peaches too.

PRUNING

As just stated, the pruning begins as soon as the tree is planted.
In orchard culture this consists of cutting back the tree to a short stem.
If for lawns, etc., where higher heads may be desired, the tree may be
trimmed to a straight stem with the bran’ches cut back to one or two
buds. Later pruning consists in keeping the tree symmetrical and
open, and as the fruit is borne on wood of the previous year’s growth,
it follows that the tree should be trimmed annually sufficient to cause
sufficient wood growth for the annual crop of peaches. Also the top
should be thinned to admit the sunlight and air, in order to properly
develop and color the peach.

SPRAYING

The number of insect and fungus diseases that have been brought
into the country makes spraying an essential. The country is flooded
with literature on the subject of spraying, and no one need be in

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ignorance about this simple measure so necessary in growing fruit.
With all spraying operations the main* essentials are thoroughness,
good material, good spraying machinery and care in the details, and
being on time with the material and the work. The spraying in .the
winter, dormant season (that is, early in the winter or fall, and early
in the spring before the buds start), is the most important. A book
of several pages is not sufficient to go into all the details about spray-
ing, but this can not be done here, and the thing to know first is that
it is not difficult or complex, and the way to spray is to get the material
and machinery ami commence, and all that is needed to know is soon
learned. Like the practice of medicare, the right thing to spray with
depends upon what you are going to spray for. The Lime-Sulfur Solu-
tion is at the head of the list as to materials for spraying, but it is
not all that is required, and if any complications arise in your spraying,
our Information Bureau is at your service at all times to supply detailed
information for your each individual case, if you will write us on the
subject, giving details. No rigid set of rules will apply to all situations
or conditions in the matter of spraying.

For San Jose Scale — Spray with commercial Lime-Sulfur Solution
using one gallon of the material to 11 gallons of water, while the trees
are dormant, early in Spring being the best time

For Leaf Curl and Other Fungus Diseases, Corculio. etc. — Spray at
the time the fruit buds are beginning to open, and slight green of the
leaves begin to peep through, with Self Boiled Lime-Sulfur Solution
and two pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of the mixture.

For Scab, Brownrot, Corculio — Spray with Self Boiled Lime-Sulfur
Solution and two pounds arsenate of lead to 50 gallons, when the husks
are mostly off the peach. The solution is for the fungi and the arsenate
is for the curculio.

MARKETING

The first essential in the marketing of peaches is to have a good
article to place upon the market. If you wish to sell peaches at a fancy
price they must first be fancy on the tree. If they are that they are
easily marketed. Next to a first class article for the market comes the
necessity of careful grading and packing, and nice, neat packages and
good measure. A constant regard for the market and the class of
customers you wish to supply must be observed. Personally, as we
are not interested in any but fancy peaches, we favor the smaller
packages that show the fruit to the best advantage, and for this we
have found the Fancy Climax, one-sixth bushel basket, to be the best
package we have found for the purpose.

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Seven year old Shippers’ Late Red orchard yielded $16.00 per tree.

All the fruit picked froro the ground.

VARIETIES

As previously stated, the selection of varieties is of the greatest
importance in the planting of peach trees. Of these there are several
hundred, and certain it is that not many of them possess sufficient of
the many desirable attributes to make them worthy of general planting.
In the selection of a variety of peaches to plant, the desirable attribute
to be possessed by the ones chosen should include: Hardiness of tree

and bud; longevity of the tree; vigor of growth; early bearing habit;
prolific habits of bearing in the latitude where you will plant; ability
to hold large crops without breaking the limbs or trunk of the tree;
greatest ability to resist diseases and insect enemies.

The fruit must he large, well colored and of good quality, an’d the
best for general purposes must be of the later sort. The fruit must
also be of good keeping qualities and not easily bruised, even when
ripe enough to pick and ship. There are very few varieties that include
even a few of the above attributes.

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GREAT IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEACH

The peach is a tropical fruit in its origin and has, by selection,
transposition, cross-hybridizing and cultivation, been developed to on*e
of the most, if not the most valuable of fruits in the temperate zone.
The study of the history of this development is certainly one of the
most fascinating of all botanical or pomological subjects, but is not a
part of this article. The Peach is easy of culture and correspondingly
easy of improvement. It is the opinion of the writer that this work
will proceed in the near future much more rapidly and practically than
in all past generations. It is now our province to consider the merits
and history of what we believe to be the greatest and most valuable of
all peaches, in practically all of the above desirable features.

THE SHIPPERS’ LATE RED PEACH

In giving a brief description of this remarkable peach we shall not
advance any theories, but simply tell some of the Actual Results of our
own and others experience in the cultivation of this variety.

The original seedling tree of the Shippers’ Late Red Peach is now
on our grounds at Martinsville, Indiana, and is nineteen years old.
It is perfectly sound in every particular and has not a dead twig nor
a weak limb about it. A year ago a limb six inches in diameter was
cut from the side of this tree, and showed that there is not a sign of
decay about the tree, and that it is sound to the center. This tree has
now a spread of top of thirty-six feet — that is, it is thirty-six feet across
the top from side to side; it is four feet and six inches in circumference
around the trunk at a point half way between the ground and where
the limbs start out; it is twenty-one feet high in the center of the top
and covers an area of ground of something over one thousand square
feet. The average growth of the limbs the past season over the tree
was something like eighteen inches; the increase in the size of the
trunk in circumference was four inches; it is now in better condition
to bear a big crop of peaches than it has ever been before. There is
no reason to doubt that this tree shall bear peaches in great quantities
for twenty years to come. Many horticulturists who have seen it have
expressed the opinion that it would continue to bear peaches for forty
years or more to come.

The first fruits on this tree were borne in 1897 and the following
year, 1898, it was transplanted to where it now stands and in this
place has borne fruit every year since 1899 except in 1912, in which
year the thermometer here registered 30 degrees below zero. It has
withstood the winter of 1905 when the thermometer on February 13th
and 14th registered 20 degrees below zero and yet bore a crop that
year.

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Middle of orchard of Shippers’ Late Red peaches. Trees 12 years
from planting

MOST HARDY AGAINST FROST.

In 1910 there was a freeze all over this section of the country
cn the 23d of April that killed every other variety of peaches in this
section at that time and also apples and pears, as well as straw-
berries and raspberries. The season was early, peaches had bloomed
in March, and the peaches were as big as a cherry, but. not on’e
of the trees of the Shippers’ Late Red on our grounds from three years
old up were injured and we had that year the finest crop of the
Shippers’ Late Red peach that we had ever grown* up to that time
and there were 12 trees in an old orchard scattered through the or-
chard as replants that produced that year $380.00 worth of peaches,
sold in the orchard. An orchard of 5,000 trees of 40 varieties of the
old sorts, adjoining this orchard did not produce a peach that year.

THE SPRING FROSTS IN 191S.

This same experience was almost duplisated in the past spring
when the greater part of all other varieties of peaches and apples

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too were killed by the late frosts and freezing weather, not only irr In-
diana, but also through Ohio ami into Maryland, West Virginia and
Virginia. This same year every Shippers’ Late Red peach tree on
our place was loaded with fruit, our three year old orchard aver-
aged returns of $3.18 per tree and in o*e orchard nin'e trees — re-
plants, eleven years old averaged $27 00 per tree, tb^ fruit sold in
the orchard.

LARGE, BEAUTIFUL FREESTONE.

The fruit of the Shippers’ Late Red peach is a freestone, flesh
yellow, rich aird juicy, free from fiber, the largest size, fourteen to
sixteen peaches filling a one-sixth bushel basket. The skin of the
peach is yellow, overspread with bright, beautiful red and when
you approach the tree the peaches have the appearance of being
red all over. The season of ripening is medium late, about two or
three weeks later than Elberta and preceding the Salway. For the
past eight years we have taken each year about twenty bushels uf the
Shippers’ Late Red peaches to the Indiana State Fair and distributed
them to thousands of people and the universal opinion* of those who
have tasted this peach is that it is of the highest quality.

BEST SHIPPER AND KEEPER.

As a shipper and keeper it has no superior and it will remain
on the tree in good condition for three weeks after it is ripe enough
to pick safely and we have tested it in this respect, many times.

BEST COMPARED WITH MANY VARIETIES.

Tn the summing up of the many good qualities of the Shippers’
Late Red peach it may be in order to say that we have on* our
grounds at Martinsville, Inti., over three hundred different varieties
of peaches. We test everything new that is offered as well as all
the well known old sorts. There has never been any other variety
here that has made any approach to the Shippers’ Late Red, in* any
point of value from hardiness on down the line including size, color,
QUALITY-FLAVOR, keeping and shipping qualities, vigor of growth,
ability to hold up great crops of peaches without injury to the limbs,
and breaking; health and vigor of foliage and circulation giving to the
tree qualities resistant of diseases and insect enemies; early bearing
and the wonderful longevity of the tree, and its matchless symmetry
and beauty in the orchard.

We have never found in’ our orchard a single peach of the Ship
pers’ Late Red that showed the effects of the brown rot of the peach.
There is a marked difference in separate varieties of peaches as their
susceptibility to brown rot, some being much worse than others, but

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the Shippers’ Late Red is the only one on our grounds that we have
never seen* affected by the brown rot fungus at all.

“THE LITTLE TURK”

CURCULIO.

In the middle states and notably in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
ana Missouri, the curculio is one of the worst enemies of the peach.
We have never seen a single specimen of the Shippers’ Late Red
peach in which the egg of the curculio had hatched and a worm devel-
oped in the peach. We have for years offered a standing offer of
One Dollar to anyone who would show us a Shippers’ Late Red peach
with a worm in the peach, but no one has yet claimed the dollar.

Shippers’ Late Red peach orchard in bloorp and before the leaves
carue out. Shows system of cover crop plowing in rye
and vetch in the Spring, April 18

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GREAT OPPORTUNITIES.

As stated in the beginning of this article, Peach Growing is in1
its infancy. By this the writer means that the future has immeasur-
ably greater things in store for the progressive peach grower than
the past has yet observed. It is the writer’s opinion that the man
who is growing just ordinary peaches will in the next few years have
a hard time. People want the BEST. This applies to peaches the
same as to railroad accommodations and other public utilities. Small
peaches, peaches of common flavor, or insipid like a large part of
those with which the people are now being supplied will not fill the bill
when they learn of the wonderful beauty, flavor, size and color of the
Ship] ->?>' Late Red. We have already had this experience in our or-
chards Buyers have paid us $4.00 per bushel for our fine Shippers’
Late Red peaches when they could buy what are called just good
peaches for one-third of the price. The past season our Shippers’
Late Red peaches were sold at an average price of over $4.00 per
bushel when the very best Elberta peaches preceding the Shippers’
Late Red about two weeks sold on this same market from our orchards
for $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel. The extraordinary size, wonderful color
and unequaled flavor of the Shippers’ Late Red makes the difference.
Add to this the fact that the Shippers’ Late Red bears an every-year
crop while the Elberta in this section, not over one in every three,
and the value of the Shippers’ Late Red is increased many times over.
Why cumber your ground with common peaches when the same space
can be occupied with trees of such immensely greater value.

CAN YOU EXPERIMENT?

As stated in the first of this article We OFFER NO THEORIES.
The above outline is a very much abbreviated history of our ACTUAL
EXPERIENCE. The average planter can not afford to experiment.
The writer has been experimenting with peaches and growing peaches
and studying the subject of peaches in its various phases for more
than thirty years. These results are at your service when we supply
you with trees of the Shippers’ Late Red peach.

COME AND SEE.

To those who are unacquainted with specimens of the Shippers’
Late Red peach, who have never seen it bearing on the trees and
who have never seen the original tree, or any of the trees we say
“Come and See.” If all we claim for this peach is not fully verified
and more; if it is not as good as we say or better, if the neighbors,
who are buying all of these trees they can raise the money to pay for,
do not indorse all we say about this peach, in short if 'we can not
prove ALL and MORE than wre have claimed for the Shippers’ Late

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Keep tbe surface of the peach orchard cultivated. Shallow
cultivation.

Red Peach, we will return you all the money you have ever paid us
for the trees.

We have taken all the premiums at the Indiana State Fair for the
past eight years for this class. There has never been a grower seen
the peach oir the trees who did not unqualifiedly pronounce them the
finest they have ever seen and the trees the most vigorous and re-
markable in all respects. The original tree on our grounds is the
most remarkable tree that can be found ; in size, in vigor, in longevity,
and in records of bearing the greatest crops ever produced by a peach
tree.

UNEQUALED BEARING RECORD.

Here is the record of the crops from the original tree in dollars and
cents since 1900. Though this tree bore fin'e crops of beautiful peaches
in 1901, 1902 and 1903, no record was kept of the crop but the fol-
lowing is the record since that time:

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1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912 temperature 30 degrees below zero.

1913

$ 7.00
4.20
14.25
16.80

33.00
25.50

62.00
36 80

48.60

\f you can’t get close enough to the tree with teams a little spad-
ing will help. No sod wanted around the peach tree

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In 1910 there were twelve trees in one of our orchards from which
we sold the fruit for $380. 00. These trees were replants in an old
orchard where other varieties had died and been replaced with Ship-
pers’ Late Red, and averaged at that time about ten years of age.
On'e orchard planted in 1906 averaged in 1908 $1.10 per tree; in 1909
$2.80 per tree; in 1910 $3.60 per tree (this the hard frost year when
all other varieties in Indiana were killed by the late frosts) ; in 1911
$7.00 per tree; in 1913 $16.00 per tree.

Though the Shippers’ Late Red Peach trees which you shipped us
last spring were so many weeks on* the road on account of the flood
conditions, all of the 800 trees are growing. You had packed them so
well that they opened up in good condition and were in bloom at the
time we opened the boxes.

Romney, W. Va. BUCKEYE ORCHARD CO.

A load of Shippers’ Late Red peaches ready for market. This load
brought $144.00 on the Indianapolis market.

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THE GOVERNOR LIKES THE PEACHES

Dear Mr. Mason: The 12 baskets of peaches ordered for me are in’

the Hanley home. They are the best we have ever had, not only in
size and beauty, but in flavor, Mrs. Hanley desires me to express her
sincere appreciation of these beautiful peaches. Very truly yours,
Indianapolis, Sept. 11, 1909. J. FRANK HANLEY.

The following is from a letter from Benjamin W. Douglass, for
five years State Entomologist of Indiana, and a recognized authority
on all fruit subjects:

“Now about the Big Red (the Shippers’ Late Red). That basket
was on the road seven days. They had been pulled quite ripe evidently,
and I think they shipped mighty well. In flavor they are unexcelled
by any peach. * * * I never tasted a better peach. They are

tender, free from fibre, full of juice and at the same time are firm
enough to ship well. If you can produce trees of this variety that will
carry the qualities of the parent tree you certainly have a wonderful
thing. I had an opportunity to compare your peach with the * * *.

Your peach excels the other. The flavor and quality is VERY much
better. Sincerely, BENJAMIN W. DOUGLASS.”

September 24, 1913.

THE PERUNA COMPANY

Columbus. O., Oct. 20, 1913

Mr. B. F. Mason, Martinsville, Ind.

My Dear Sir: The peaches that were shipped to Dr. J. B. Hart-

man were delivered to me. Dr. J. B. Hartman was a brother of mine,
now deceased. He was not a doctor, but a groceryman. My name is
S. B. Hartman. I am the Dr. Hartman that manufactures Peruna. We
divided the peaches, half to Mr. John Hartman, and the other half
we kept.

The peaches were better than the best peaches I ever tasted. They
were certainly wonderfully good, and both families thank you very
much for the peaches.

Wishing everything that is good to fall in your way all through
your life, I am, Yours very respectfully,

S. B. HARTMAN, M. D.

J. H. Marlin, Bloomington, Ind., writes in the World-Courier:

“We have in our own county the finest peaches grown anywhere in
the country. We have a man Mho is recogin zed as the best authority
on the culture, diseases and propagation of peaches in the state, and
Mho has on his farm in Marion toMmship several neM- varieties of his

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PIcqIc In the peach orchard. Friends frori) a distance take some of
the “BIG RED ’peaches home with then).

own breeding which have already gained a reputation for size, quality
and hardiness in many other states. To realize what real peach, peach
man, or peach orchard is you must go and see for yourself.”

WILL M. LOCKHART
Fancy Fruits and Groceries

Connersville, Ind.

Mr. B. F. Mason, Martinsville, Ind.

Dear Sir: Enclosed I hand you check $93.00 for the Shippers’ Late

Red peaches. My customers simply went wild over them. In all my
experience of over 25 years in handling the best of fruit I have never
had anything in my store that caused as much interest as these won-
derful “Big Red” peaches. They are actually supreme over everything
of the kind I have ever seen. .1 want you to ship these peaches to me
every year and as long as they last. Yours,

WILL M. LOCKHART.

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Farmersburg, Iml., Sept. 24, 1910.

B. F. Mason, Martinsville, Ind.

Kind Friend: Of course I do firmly believe that the Shippers’ Late

Red peach is the best there is or I would not have placed so large an
order for the trees. As to their hardiness I know myself that you had
a big crop this year when all the other varieties were killed by the
frost, for I helped to pick the crop. As to the flavor it seemed they
suited everybody and I am confident that they are as big as any peaches
ought to be. As a business investment I would pay a dollar a tree for
the Shippers’ Late Red peach trees rather than plant ordinary varieties
as a gift. Yours truly, ADRIAN YEAGER.

I have been growing and handling peaches all my life, but the
Shippers’ Late Red are the first real peaches I ever saw. That is why
I am planting an orchard of a thousand trees of them.

Morgan County, Ind. WM. T. SMITH.

I have seen the finest peaches grown in the best fruit belts of
Colorado, Washington and other favored sections, but I have never
seen any peaches, or peach trees either, that even compare favorably
in beauty, flavor and size with the Shippers’ Late Red.

Brown County, Ind. TYNER W. MYERS.

The Shippers’ Late Red peaches are so beautiful, and the fruit on
our three year old trees of this variety this summer were so much
better than we had ever thought they would be that I wish you would
have given the tree a prettier name.

Rush County, Ind.

CHAS. F. BINFORD.

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Can you see the “Big Red” Peaches on this tree? It
is the same parent tree shown in the first picture in the
booklet, a,nd the picture on the cover page is also a branch
of this tree; Just 84 peaches to the bushel. This tree is
older than any of these young women, except one. When
you write to us about the Shippers’ Late Red peaches,
your reply will be written by some member of this
group.

Republican — Martinsville.

Peaches and Peach
Growing

Our list of apple trees includes over 70 varieties. Tbe Jonathan
is one of the best winter apples

Union Orchard and Nursery Co

B. F. MASON, Proprietor
MARTINSVILLE, INDIANA