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Hi --

I had a customer at farmers' market Wednesday (in Bath, New York) who 
told me that the Redhaven peaches I was selling her were not the same as 
the ones she used to know. (She tried one, and did buy them.) She said 
the ones her father grew, and that she was able to buy elsewhere some 
years ago, had a pink tinge to the flesh, and a very sweet flavor; but 
that Redhaven peaches she's been able to buy for the last ten years or 
so have been different, in flavor as well as in color.

The Redhaven peach I have been growing has yellow flesh, and a very good 
peach flavor. I have been selling them in this area, the years that I've 
had them, for about ten years, including to customers who asked for 
Redhaven by name; no one else has ever said that these weren't the 
Redhaven that they remember. I have also bought local Redhaven peaches, 
in years when I had no crop but others in a more sheltered location did; 
and they were the same as my Redhaven. My trees came I think from 
Hilltop Nurseries, though I'd have to hunt through old records boxes in 
the attic to check, as my recordkeeping wasn't as good then as it is now 
and I didn't carry this information through.

Does anyone know anything about a pink fleshed Redhaven peach? I 
suggested that her father might have had a sport or an oddity, but she 
said that others in the area grew them also.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly