CHAPTP]R XXVI 



VARIETIES OF PEACHES 



The g:rcat numlier of varieties, not less than 500 having been 

 cultivated in America, attests the variability of the peach. The 

 kinds ean be distinguished through differences in size, shape, 

 skin, flesh, flavor, aroma, stone, and season ; and, if fruit is 

 lacking or insufficient for identification, the leaf, flower, and 

 tree offer nearly as many distinguishing characters. A hundred 

 or more kinds of peaches can be purchased from nurserymen, 

 and about 300 sorts are now in fruit in the hands of the author 

 at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. Of these 

 many varieties twenty-nine are selected for this text as being 

 most representative and most commonly grown. 



INDEX TO VAEIETIES OF PEACHES 



Alexander, 533 J. H. Hale, 550 



Belle, 539 Late Crawford, 555 



Belle of Georgia, 539 Muir, 548 



Blood Cling, 558 Pallas, 561 



Canada, 534 Peento, 559 



Carman, 536 Phillips Cling, 544 



Champion, 538 Eochester, 551 



Chili, 556 St. John, 547 



Chinese Flat, 559 Salwey, 557 



Climax, 560 Sellers Cling, 545 



Crosby, 554 Stevens, 541 



Early Crawford, 552 Stevens Eareripe, 541 



Elberta, 549 Triumph, 546 



Gold Drop, 553 Tuscan Cling, 543 



Greensboro, 535 Tuskena, 543 



Hiley, 537 Waddell, 540 



Hill's Chili, 556 Yellow St. John, 547 

 Iron Mountain, 542 



KEY TO VARIETIES OF PEACHES 



A. Flesh mildly acid, not honey sweet; fruits globose. 

 B. Color of' flesh white. 

 C. Stone clinging; early. 



D. Fruit round; suture shallow; very early... 533. Alexander. 



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