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DDD. Ripening late, with or after Crosby. 

 K. Fk'sli golden-yellow to the pit; scarcely 



blushed 553. Gold Drop. 



EE. Flesh tinged red at the pit ; cheek 

 blushed with red. 

 D. Fruit round-oblate, compressed, small, 



halves unequal 554. Crosby. 



DD. Fruit round-oval, compressed, halves un- 

 equal 555. Late Crawford. 



DDD. Fruit oblong-conic, angular, com- 

 pressed, halves unequal, very pubescent 556. Chili. 



DDDD. Fruit round cordate, compressed; 

 greenish yellow with a brownish red blush; 



very late 557. Salwey. 



BBB. Color of flesh red 558. Blood Cling. 



AA. Flesh honey sweet; fruits oblate or globose and 

 beaked. 



B. Fruit and stone markedly oblate 559. Peento. 



BB. Fruit round-oval; more or less beaked. 



C. Shape oval ; sides unequal ; beak curved 500. Climax. 



CC. Shape oblong-oval; sides equal; beak 



straight 5G1. Pallas. 



DIVISION A. FLESH MILDLY ACID ; FRUITS GLOBOSE 



Section I. Flesh White 



Group 1. Stone Clinging 



533. Alexander is one of the notable early peaches, hardiness 

 and vigor of tree contributing with earliness to make the variety 

 popular. Unfortunately, the peaches run small, the flesh clings 

 to the stone so that the two can be separated only with dif- 

 ficulty, and the quality is poor. The trees are unproductive. 

 The fruits are very susceptible to brown-rot, but to offset this 

 weakness, the trees are resistant to leaf -curl. Alexander origi- 

 nated soon after the Civil War, on the farm of 0. A. Alexander, 

 Mount Pulaski, Illinois. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, unproductive. Fruit very- 

 early; 21/4 inches in diameter, round, compressed, with sides nearly equal; 

 cavity deep, flaring ; suture shallow ; apex depressed ending in a mueronate 

 or small mamelon, recurved tip ; color greenish-white becoming creamy white, 

 blushed and blotched with dark red, mottled; pubescence short; skin sepa- 

 rates readily from the pulp; flesh greenish-white, juicy, stringy, sweet, very 

 mild; fair to good in quality; stone clinging, oval, plump, faintly ringed, 



