Excellent Peaches

The Florida Times-Union and Citizen is authority for the following:

"Messrs. R. Mills and P. B. Jordan, of Orlando, Fla., have made a discovery which will prove of great [value] to the peach industry of the country. They have been experimenting for several years on the problem of producing seedless peaches, and at last they think they have succeeded.

Last spring several trees which had set fruit, but still had a few blossoms with the forming fruit barely visible, were operated on by their process. The fully formed fruit on these trees yielded pits of the regulation size, while the peaches produced from the late blooms mentioned had extremely small pits; some of them completely aborted, and the flesh was much more delicious than those with natural pits.

Had the test been made late in the fall or early spring, the result would, no doubt, have been entirely satisfactory, with no greater show of seeds than in the pineapple or banana. Specimens of the aborted pits have been shown to a number of persons.

"A great many fruit trees of different varieties have been subjected to the process in this vicinity during the summer and fall, which will not produce seedless fruit until this year. The parties claim that their process is simply horticultural transmutation, and is as simply 'worked' as grafting. The process is as applicable to bearing fruit trees and grafted kinds as it is to nursery stock.

"Tropical fruits have the serious objection of being large seeded, especially the drupes or one-seeded varieties. The seedless process would add much to their value and desirability.

"In applying the 'transmutation complex' to bearing trees, not the least damage can be done them; on the contrary, if trees are in bad condition this process will restore them to a healthy vigorous growth, and the certain production of luscious seedless fruits."