Elberta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Elberta
1925–30, said to be after Elberta Rumph, wife of a 19th-cent. Georgia grower
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Of the pale, cream-fleshed varieties, Snow and Saturn are immensely fragrant; of yellow, Elberta and Red Haven emerge heaviest.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022
The immigrant Berckmanses, along with genteel entrepreneurs like Samuel Rumph, selectively bred natural and imported peaches into the self-pollinating Elberta cultivar, Georgia’s best-known variety.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2021
It was in California where Luther Burbank, a horticulturalist known as The Wizard, bred the Santa Rosa plum, the Elberta peach and the Russet Burbank potato.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
Mrs. Solomon was born Elberta Crites in Tanner, W.Va., and moved to Washington in 1941.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2020
This the boarders who called Elberta Inn home year in and year out well understood and so it was all transients were more or less looked down upon.
From Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson
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