Author: James Wyvill Lesley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-18

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780364895245

Excerpt from Five New Peach Varieties Especially Adapted to Mild Winters When breeding was resumed at the Citrus Experiment Station in 1927, the plants used for this purpose were (1) the most promising seed lings obtained from the early work; (2) several varieties collected by the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture and having comparatively little chilling requirement; and (3) some standard commercial varieties. The pollen for crossing was collected from flowers that opened in the lab oratory, and all flowers, either cross or self-pollinated, were enclosed in paper bags. About seedlings originating from this material have now fruited, and from these, the five new varieties described in the present paper have been selected as promising for commercial plant ing on a small scale and for the home garden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.