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that makes Elberta the greatest of all peaches — wonderful adapt- 

 ability to all peach environments. 



Frances came from Texas twelve or fifteen years ago. As to 

 its history further than that we are not as yet informed. 



Tree very large, tall, upright, slightly spreading, hardy, productive. Leaves 

 folded upward oval to obovate-lanceolate, large, thin, and leathery; upper surface dark 

 green; lower surface silvery-green; season of bloom intermediate, short. Fruit late, 

 season long; two and three-fourths inches long, two and one-half inches through, 

 roundish-oval, slightly oblique, halves unequal, bulged at apex; cavity medium in 

 depth and width, slightly flaring; suture shallow, deepening toward apex; apex roundish; 

 color deep lemon-yellow, specked and widely splashed dull red on a lively blush cheek; 

 dots small, numerous, rather conspicuous; pubescence short, thin; skin thin, tough, 

 separating readily; flesh yellow, red at stone, juicy, moderately coarse, tender, fibrous, 

 pleasing subacid, rich, sweet, vinous; good to very good; stone free. 



Miss Lola is a popular peach in parts of the South but is hardly 

 known in New York. On our grounds it is the best of its season 

 and one of the best of all peaches. Moreover, it fills a gap in the 

 peach procession that ought to make it valuable in this State. It 

 follows Mamie Ross and Greensboro, both of which it surpasses 

 in appearance and quality. It precedes Champion and is even 

 better than that handsome and delicious peach, and, quite as impor- 

 tant, is almost a freestone while Champion is an out-and-out 

 clingstone. Since it ripens with the well known Carman, fruit- 

 growers will want to know how it compares with that variety. It 

 is hardier in bud than Carman, that sort not having a single fruit 

 after the cold winter of 1911-12 while Miss Lola bore a fair crop; 

 it is of better quality, a little larger, hardly as well colored and 

 on our grounds is more productive. 



Miss Lola was grown by J. W. Stubenrauch, Mexia, Texas, from 

 a pit planted in 1876. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive; leaves 

 nearly flat, large; upper surface dull dark green, smooth; lower surface silvery-green; 

 season of bloom early, long. Fruit mid-season, season long; two and three-eighths 

 inches long, two and one-half inches wide, two and one-half inches broad, oval, often 

 roundish-oval, usually somewhat oblique, slightly compressed, halves nearly equal; 

 cavity deep, wide, abrupt; suture shallow, deepening toward apex; apex roundish, 

 slightly depressed, mucronate; color creamy-white, specked and blushed with carmine, 

 with darker splashes, overspread with short pubescence; dots inconspicuous; stem 

 short; skin thin, tough, separating readily; flesh white, red at pit, fine, melting, fibrous, 

 '"weet, sprightly; very good; stone nearly free. 



PLUMS. 



Imperial Epineuse is one of the most promising plums grown on 

 our grounds — it is not surpassed in quality by any other purple 

 plum. Moreover, it is one of the largest in the prune group and 

 one of the most attractive by reason of its well molded form and 

 its handsome reddish-purple color which is lighter or darker accord- 

 ing to the exposure of the plums to the sun. There are but two 

 trees of this variety on the Station grounds but there are a number 



