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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Douglas,

I've been wanting to try Harrow Diamond for an early peach (supposedly good
bac. spot resistance) but I read somewhere the skin is astringent and it
scared me off.  Do you find this so?

Mark
KS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Woodard" <>
To: <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>; "North American Fruit Explorers"
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Reliance peach


> Dennis, if you have not already done so you might want to try Harrow
> Diamond which is about 9 days before Garnet Beauty here, of good quality
> for an early peach, and reported hardier than most although not quite as
> hardy as Reliance.
>
> The description from the Ontario government publication "Fruit
> Cultivars: a guide for commerical growers" for 1985 says:
>
> "This 1975 Agriculture Canada introduction (Redskin x Harbinger) ripens
> with Candor. The medium-sized fruit have an attractive red blush over a
> bright yellow background. The deep-yellow, non-browning flesh is of good
> quality and is nearly freestone. It has few split-pits."
>
> For others, regarding Reliance, remember that a peach you can grow
> yourself and ripen properly before picking will likely be of better
> quality than anything you can buy in the supermarket. I recall that
> friends in Kingston Ontario (at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, 250
> miles by road from the commercial peach growing area of the Niagara
> Peninsula) were very pleased with the fruit of their tree of Reliance,
> short lived though it was.
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
> dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com wrote:
> > Herre is a list of Cold Hardy Peaches that we grow here at Royal Oak
> > Farm in Zone 5(4b) that have survived -25 below zero and fruited:
> >
> > Cold hardy peaches: (Ripe date: +/- from Red Haven)
> >
> > *Contender* (+18) - has high chilling
> >
> > requirement (1050 hrs) & very hardy
> >
> > fruit buds.
> >
> > *Cresthaven *(+24)
> >
> > *Garnet Beauty* (-11)
> >
> > *Harcrest* (+26)
> >
> > *Madison* (+24) - buds very hardy, but fruit
> >
> > is tender & does not pack/ship well.
> >
> > *Redskin* (+29) - bloom (& harvest) is
> >
> > spread out, providing more frost
> >
> > hardiness.
> >
> > *Reliance* (+3) - reliable cropping, but poor
> >
> > quality fruit
> >
> >
> >
> > Here are two new varieties that we have not tried yet:
> >
> > *Summer Serenade* (sport of Garnet Beauty)
> >
> > *Autumn Star* (+ 45) - new cultivar, 2003;
> >
> > very hardy fruit buds, but very late!
> >
> > Dennis Norton
> > Royal Oak Farm Orchard
> > http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
> > http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
> > http://www.revivalhymn.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com
> > <mailto:ernestplutko@wiktel.com>>
> > To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org <mailto:nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:36 PM
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Reliance peach
> >
> > Jerry:  I'm really impressed that you were able to fruit a peach tree
> > in Warroad.  How big was the pit you had the peach tree in?  How long
> > did you have it before it fruited?  I've been thinking about your
> > accomplishment and I will try it myself. Are there more hardy
> > peaches? I bought a Reliance peach years ago but it died the first
> > winter.  I was going to keep working but last October I was fishing
> > in the Rainy River, hit a log and my boat sank. I swam to shore,
> > stood up and had a heart attack.  Fell back into the river and
> > floated down stream in the dark for three hours in a daze.  Finally
> > came around and swam to shore again.  Decided it was time to retire.
> >
> >
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