Elberta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Elberta
1925–30, said to be after Elberta Rumph, wife of a 19th-cent. Georgia grower
Example Sentences
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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
Elberta Solomon, 105, who retired in 1986 after 31 years of federal service as an office typist, code clerk and educational examiner, died Nov. 7 at a senior living community in Silver Spring.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2020
In 1995, they bought 3 acres of land in tiny Elberta, across a red-dirt road from fields of cotton and peanuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2016
M. P. REED: It bloomed about a week earlier than the Elberta, and the peach crop is light.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association
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