THE PEACH. 



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SOUTHERN^ AND WESTERN PEACHES — REVISED 

 CATALOGUE. 



Selected from the Catalogue of the Committeee of Revision, present- 

 ed and accepted at the meeting of the American Pomolog leal So- 

 ciety, held at Richmond, Va., in Sejotemher, 1871. 



The columns explain : Size 1, large ; m., medium ; s., small. Class, 

 F., freest >ne ; C, clingstone. Color, relative to flesh, w., white or pale 

 colored; y., yellow or yellowish; g,, greenish white, red at the stone. 

 Quality, m. j. r., melting, juicy, rich; s. j., sweet and juicy ; s. j. h.j 

 sweet, juicy, and high flavored. Glands — s., serrated without glands ; 

 g., glands globose ; v., glands reniform. Season — those designated as 

 early, ripen in latitude 43°, previous to or about Sept. 1st ; medium, 

 those ripening from the 1st. to the 15th. of Sept., and late those after 

 period; E., early; M. medium; L., late; V. E., very early; V. L., 

 very late. Origin — Am. American, F. Foreign. One *or ° designates 

 recommended, two *^-' or °° gives the character or superiority for family 

 and market use. 



* This originated in South Carolina, and differs from the Missouri 

 Amelia. 



t Berchmans thinks it is the same as Shanghae. 



