Flowering peaches - useful crop?

[templeton]

I've collected a pile of peach seeds from a country conference centre based around an old farmhouse and garden. They look like a quite mature garden planting, over 40 years old at least i would hazard.
The nice staff there said they were flowering peaches, and didn't set useful fruit - but the ground beneath the trees was covered in peach pits, suggesting that they do set some sort of fruit, and prolifically at that. Does anyone have any experience with flowering peaches, and their usefulness as food?

[castanea]

Generally the fruit is small, and the flesh is dry, mealy and tasteless. Mostly they serve as a reservoir for peach leaf curl.

[s2man]

Jul 29, 2012 17:51:44 GMT -5 castanea said:

Mostly they serve as a reservoir for peach leaf curl.

Good one, castanea.

[templeton]

Ah, well, a nice idea...Thanks Castanea.
Might just germinate them and do a few sneak plantings in the waste ground to colour the place up.
T

[castanea]

Jul 29, 2012 18:17:08 GMT -5 templeton said:

Ah, well, a nice idea...Thanks Castanea.
Might just germinate them and do a few sneak plantings in the waste ground to colour the place up.
T

Or, buy some peaches and plant some pits from good fruit.

[castanea]

Jul 29, 2012 17:54:00 GMT -5 s2man said:

Jul 29, 2012 17:51:44 GMT -5 castanea said:

Mostly they serve as a reservoir for peach leaf curl.

Good one, castanea.

My neighbor has two flowering peaches which are infested with peach leaf curl and the flowers are no better than any fruiting peach anyway. What absolutely worthless trees.....