| PEACH - Semi Dwarf | |
 | Arctic Supreme Two-time taste test winner. Large, white flesh, nearly freestone when fully ripe. Red over cream colored skin. Sweet and tangy, fine delicate flavor, firm texture. Peak quality reached a short while after picking. Harvest late July/early August. Self-fruitful. |
 | Babcock Long-time favorite white-fleshed freestone. Sweet and juicy, aromatic, low in acid. Very high-scoring in taste tests. Ripens mid-July. Widely adapted: (low chill requirement, yet not early blooming). Self-fruitful. |
 | Donut (Stark Saturn) Also called Saucer or Peento Peach. Unique white-fleshed fruit with a sunken center (shaped like a doughnut). Sweet, with a mild flavor described by some as almond-like. Ripens late June to early July. Self-fruitful. |
 | Elberta Famous yellow freestone. Classic, rich, peach flavor: high-scoring in taste tests. Use fresh, canned, cooked. Ripe late July/early August in Central Calif., up to 3-4 weeks later in colder climates. Self- fruitful. |
 | Frost Resistant to peach leaf curl (10-year trials at Washington State U.). Delicious yellow freestone. Slight red blush over greenish yellow to yellow skin. Heavy bearing, excellent for canning or eating fresh. July. Showy pink bloom in spring. Self-fruitful. |
 | Gold Dust Earliest top quality peach. Yellow semi-freestone with exceptional flavor. Mid to late June. All-purpose, superb for eating fresh. Self-fruitful. |
 | O'Henry Popular fresh market yellow freestone now available for home planting. Large, firm, full red skin, superb flavor. Ripens early to mid-August. Strong, vigorous, heavy bearing tree. Self-fruitful. |
 | Red Baron Flowering/fruiting. Large, juicy, firm, richly flavored yellow freestone fruit. Showy double red blossoms. Mid-July harvest. Self-fruitful. |
 | Snow Beauty White-fleshed taste test winner: one of the all time highest-scoring varieties in blind fruit tastings at Dave Wilson Nursery. Low acid, high sugar, tantalizing flavor. Large, very firm, attractive red skin. Harvest early to mid-July. Self-fruitful. |
 | Suncrest A favorite fresh-market variety. Large, very firm, fine-flavored, yellow freestone. Bright red skin over yellow. Suncrest is the peach immortalized by the book "Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on my Family Farm", by David Mas Masumoto (1995) in Fresno. Tree-ripe harvest late July. Frost hardy blossoms, consistent producer. Self-fruitful. |
PEACH - Dwarf | |
 | Eldorado Well-known Jackson & Perkins variety. Exceptionally high quality, richly-flavored fruit. Yellow freestone, attractive red-blushed skin. Harvest early to mid June. 4-5 ft. tree. Self-fruitful. |
 | Garden Sun Yellow freestone, ripe one week after Elberta. Sweet, mild, low acid. 4-5 ft. tree. Showy blossoms. Self-fruitful. |
 | Honey Babe Sweet, yellow freestone, rich peach flavor. Heavy bearing 5 ft. tree. Early to mid-July. Excellent choice for home orchard. Self-fruitful. |
The peach tree is admired as much for its beauty and fragrant blossoms as it is for its fruit. However, nothing tastes like a home grown peach. It is sweet yet tart at the same time. This delightful balance of flavors is so popular it makes the peach tree one of the most widely grown orchard fruits in America, second only to apples.
Peaches
The flesh of a peach can be yellow or it can be white. Whether white or yellow, the flesh is always streaked with red at the pit or "stone." The two general classifications of peaches are either freestone or clingstone. Freestone means the pit separates readily from the fruit. However, clingstone does exactly as it says... the pit clings to the fruit.