Title: The Easterly Nurseries (catalog)
Identifier: CAT31291718 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Easterly Nurseries; Easterly, W. A; W. A. Easterly (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Tennessee Cleveland Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Cleveland, Tenn. : W. A. Easterly
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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8 The Easterly Nurseries, Cleveland, Tenn. from buds have produced over a half bushel of fruit per tree. The fruit is of large size, with a very small pit, surface yellow, nearly covered with red, and dark crimson in the sun. Flesh bright yellow; freestone when fully ripe, of ex- cellent flavor. Surely the coming early market peach. Price by mail or ex- press, 40c. each, 83.50 per dozen; S18.00 per 100.
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GREENSBORO, (New. j—Originated at Greensboro, N. C. The largest of al the early peaches; flesh white, very juicy, fine flavor, far excels any of the early varieties in appearance, highly colored, bright red over yellow. An excellent 'early peach. Price by mail, or express, 40c. each, $3.50 per dozen; $18.00 per 100. MATHEWS BEAUTY.-Originated by J. G. Mathews, of Cuthbert, Ga.. stands without a parallel. lis size is of the largest, many specimens weighing from 16 to 18 ounces each. Its color, texture, and shipping qualities are of the best, none better. Skin golden yellow, streaked with red, flesh yellow, very fine texture, firm and rich, with excellent flavor, a perfect free-stone. Tree a thriftv grower, sure and abundant bearer. Ripens one month later than El- berta, which it somewhat resembles, though it is larger and superior in every point of excellence to that well-known and valuable variety. It is a well-known fact that after the Elberta is gone, our southern markets have been and are still supplied with peaches shipped in from other sections and sold at high prices. Therefore it is seen that Mathewa Beauty fills one of the most important of the missing inks, and being superior in size and quality to any other peach so far originated in the south, it is sure to prove a very valuable production for mar- ket Read the opinions of some of the leading fruit growers and Horticultur- ists who saw the peach exhibited at the Georgia State Horticultural meeting, held at Griflin in August, 1896.

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