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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

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From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Subject: Eden peach
To: nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org

I don't sell Eden and I don't sell small trees anyway but I too was intrigued by that inviting name and planted one several years ago that I find somewhat underwhelming as far as quality is concerned.  However it  might be as good as any peach existing at the alleged time of the Garden of Eden.  I don't think a lot of improvement had been made on white peaches as of about 5,000 years ago.  My Eden gets the basal pruning treatment this winter to make room for a Lady Nancy, a white peach of much better quality although more prone to brown rot.  

 

Alan Haigh, Home Orchard Co. zone 6 southeastern NY