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Fig. 11. 



-Spanish Race. 

 Texas.) 



(Var. 



slightly flattened: suture very deep at basin, but does not extend more than 

 one- third the way; the apex is long and recurved; flavor is a peculiar honey 

 sweet. 



According to F. C. Reimer** peaches of this group ripen at a sea- 

 son immediately following the Peen-to group. As a group these 



peaches can endure more cold than the 

 Peen-to and are therefore better adapted 

 to northern Florida. 



3. SPANISH RACE. 



Onderdonk states that this race (figs. 

 8c, 11) is called Spanish because its history 

 can not be traced to a certaint}" farther 

 than Spain. It appears to have been 

 introduced from Spain to Mexico about 

 two hundred and seventy years ago by the 

 Catholic missionaries. It is adapted for 

 culture north of the regions in which the 

 South China race flourishes. It is generally 



believed in the Southern States that seedlings are surer bearers than 



budded fruit. 



Tree very large, except in the Indian type, which evidently has considerable Per- 

 sian blood, judging from the color of the young wood — which is reddish — the naked 

 places on the bearing wood, and the corrugations and shape of the stone; limbs are 

 large, long, and spreading; branches low and droop down, except in the Indian tj^e; 

 blooms nearly always large; foliage small and 

 nearly always flat; hangs on late in fall, stays 

 green during severe drought; * * * fruit, 

 * * * very late, nearly always yellow except 

 in the Indian type, which is always streaked with 

 red or deep blood-red just under the skin; very 

 heavy joint; * * * a heavy bearer and sure 

 cropper in its native zone. 



4. NORTH CHINA RACE. 



The name "Chinese Cling Group" is 

 believed by G. H. Powell to be more 

 exact than "Northern Chinese Race," 

 by which this group is quite generally 

 known (figs. 8d, 12). It appears from 

 Powell's accounts * that this group of peaches lirst roachod England 

 from China in 1844 and America about 1850. The varieties of this 

 group have originated largely as chance seedlings and are greatly 

 modified in appearance by environment. Powell states that the 

 varieties of this group most largely grown are Greensboro, Carman, 



Fui. 12.— North China Race. 



o Florida Sta. Bui. 73. 



b Delaware Sta. Bui. 54. 



