Elberta

[el-bur-tuh]

noun

a freestone peach having reddish-yellow skin.

Origin of Elberta

1925–30, Americanism; said to be after Elberta Rumph, wife of a 19th-cent. Georgia grower

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Elberta was placed on the American Pomological Society's fruit-list in 1889.
The Peaches of New York
U. P. Hedrick
The tree, as it grows here, can hardly be distinguished from that of Elberta.
The Peaches of New York
U. P. Hedrick
Elberta leads all other peaches in number of trees in New York and in America.
The Peaches of New York
U. P. Hedrick
Would that there were as good a commercial variety to follow Elberta.
The Peaches of New York
U. P. Hedrick
A variety, thought to have originated in Michigan, which ripens just before Elberta.
The Peaches of New York
U. P. Hedrick