A NEW FRUIT
p E ACH-NECT A R L XE CROSS. SYDNEY, September 19. Crossing a peach with a nectarine, .Mr X. S. Shirlow. plant-breeder at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, has produced a new fruit, which promises to l>o of commercial value. The product of it Triumph peach and a Goldmine nectarine, it combines the former’s early maturity and rich red outside colour with the latter's flavour and white flesh,. Its attractive appearance, and the fact that it ripens in time lor the Christmas market, should make it verv saleable.
Mr Shirlow has also bred a new seedling poach of promising appearance.
A Triumph-Blackburn cross ripening in mid-December, it is a highly-colour-ed freestone, with yellow flesh >■! good texture and flavour.
These new tpyes are firs?' tangible results of several years’ patient work, during which thousands of seedlings were raised and discarded,
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 5
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