Growing with growers since 1946
  • August 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Last Bite–A peach with longevity

    The 40-year-old O’Henry is still renowned for redness, good taste, and shipping quality.

    [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Unlike apples and pears, where new varieties are slow to appear and stay forever, new peach varieties come, and most of them go, in a continual parade. But sometimes, a new variety comes and stays a long time. Varieties like Elberta and Redhaven fit that description, and so, too, does the variety called O’Henry. “It was a big variety in the mid-1980s, and it still is,” said Gerry Hunter, the Northwest field representative for Burchell Nursery […]

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