Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
The history of the peach follows step by step the history of agriculture. The beginning of agriculture, as depicted in the traditions and embellished in the poetry of ancient peoples, was the creation of useful plants by some Divinity. But, counting unwritten history and poeti...
The À Bec peach takes the name from its beak-like apex. It originated about 1811 at Ecully, Rhône, France, with a M. Lacène. Tree hardy, vigorous, productive; leaves large; glan...
6. CHAPTER VPerhaps the peach most of all desired nowadays by peach-growers is a very early, yellow-fleshed freestone. For years Admiral Dewey and Triumph, both seedlings of Alexander, have...
2. CHAPTER IThe history of the peach follows step by step the history of agriculture. The beginning of agriculture, as depicted in the traditions and embellished in the poetry of ancient pe...
5. CHAPTER IVThe history of the peach, whether narrative or natural, shows that this fruit succeeds commercially only in restricted areas under special soil and climatic conditions. In the U...
8. Part I. Pomologie, ou Description des meilleures sortes deA Guide to the Orchard And Kitchen Garden; or, an account of the most valuable fruit and vegetables cultivated In Great Britain: with Kalendars of the Work Required in the Orcha...
4. CHAPTER IIICommercial peach-growing began in America early in the Nineteenth Century. About this time, it will be remembered, budded trees began to take the place of seedlings. Named varie...
3. CHAPTER IIThe genus Prunus is without peer in the number of distinct, natural, esculent products it furnishes man. Here belong the stone-fruits--peaches, plums, cherries, almonds and apri...
1. CHAPTER VI.--MINOR VARIETIES OF PEACHES 291