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the young wood, which is reddish, the naked places on the bearing 

 wood and the corrugations on the pit and its general shape; limbs 

 large, long and spreading ; branches low and drooping ; flowers nearly 

 always large ; leaves small and flat, persisting late in fall and turning 

 slightly yellow ; fruit very decided in character, ripening very late, 

 nearly always yellowish when mature, and covered with heavy down ; 

 in the Indian type the fruit is striped with red ; a heavy bearer and 

 sure cropper in its proper isotherm- Seems to have come from the In- 

 dian type brought over from Spain by the Spanish missionaries and 

 distributed among the Indians of the extreme Southern states. Per- 

 haps it is owing to successive seedlings in raore favorable climate that 

 the type is now varying. All over the Southern states one hears the 

 expression that seedlings are surer bearers than budded trees, and 

 there seems to be some truth in this belief, because by growing seed- 

 lings continuously varieties may adapt themselves to climate. This 

 type is adapted to isothermal lines north of where the South China 

 race flourishes. 



IV. North China Race The original Chinese Cling, which is a 



drawf tree near the coast, is the parent of thid race. It is not at all 

 adapted to regions along the gulf. Two or three hundred miles farther 

 north it and its seedlings do well. It is the parent of the largest 

 peaches in the United States ; blooms later than the Persian, and the 

 flowers are nearly always large; foliage large and flat, turning to- 

 ward autumn in the Southern states to a peculiar pea-green, and this 

 type among others in an orchard can be detected with ease by this 

 means alone. The color of the foliage foreshows the color of fruit, as 

 none of the seedlings, as a rule, are highly colored. The parent came 

 from China, and it is adapted to zones farther north than those suited 

 to the Spanish. 



V. Persian Race Tree medium size to large ; limbs short and 



thick, with long naked places ; bark usually rich purplish red on young 

 wood; flowers large or small in different varieties; foliage crimpled 

 and conduplicate, with purplish tinge before falling, which happens 

 early. This race requires a long period of rest, which indicates that it 

 has had a more northern origin than any other, supposed to have been 

 Persian. The seedlings now form the bulk of northern peach or- 

 chards. Fruit usually the most highly colored and of the finest flavor. 

 In this race we sometimes find a variety with yellow flesh, but the 

 flavor is not as good as the others. It is almost useless to plant this 

 race in the southern part of the Gulf states. 



There are some ornamental varieties, which will not be mentioned 

 here. — R. H. Price, Experiment Station, College Station, Tex. 



