Elberta

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Elberta

This is a high quality eating and canning peach. It’s as sweet a peach as you could imagine that you could have on the table. In our opinion no finer or lovelier peach tree exists anywhere. The Elberta Peach tree has very large fruit. Along with the delicious fruit, it’s a beautiful tree. In the spring, rose-red blossoms will fill the air with fragrance. And it grows well in a wide geographic belt, from Zone 5 all the way through the northern portion of Zone 9. Elberta peaches has the smallest pit-to-fruit ratio of any peach tree we offer. It is the best known yellow canning peach. The skin is red blushed over a deep golden yellow color. ... find out more

 

Castleton This prune tree is very productive and is relatively small. The prunes are early and are a high quality blue plum, ripening a month before Empress. It is one of the best eating prune available. Dual purpose -- a fine early dessert plum, but also an excellent processing variety. Castleton prunes are freestone; pit does not shatter or split. The Castleton prune fruit is of medium size that rarely split.

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