High Quality and Unusual Peach Varieties for the Amateur

Abstract

Quality - just what do we mean by that? To most peach breeders quality means flavor, the amount of peach flavor that fruit has. Others include many other characteristics in their definition of quality, with flavor usually being considered last. But I will be talking about quality, meaning flavor. The varieties discussed below may be, and some are, very poor in some of the other characteristics that make a profitable commercial variety; but the amateur, who wants some fruit for himself to eat or to give to his neighbour, can afford to put up with some of these defects for the sake of the better quality. Of course, most any peach variety picked tree-ripe will taste better than the same variety bought at the supermarket. The fruit at the market was picked long before it was eating ripe, so that it could be handled and shipped.