VARIETIES OF PEACHES 347 



abruptly pointed at the apex, with slightly pitted surfaces, and with a few 

 grooves. 



534. Canada. — A standard early peach in the northern states, 

 the variety has few characters to commend it, except earliness 

 and hardiness, though the trees are often loaded with fruit. 

 The peaches are small but are attractive in color, which is bright 

 red on a light background. The fruits are about the poorest of 

 all peaches in flavor, but are firm and ship well for a white- 

 fleshed sort. The variety originated more than a quarter century 

 ago with A. H. High, Jordan, Ontario. 



Tree large, upright -spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive. Fruit 

 very early; 2^ inches in diameter, round-oblate, compressed, with unequal 

 sides; cavity wide, flaring; suture deep; apex ending in a mucronate re- 

 curved tip, color creamy-white blushed with red and mottled and splashed 

 with darker red; pubescence short, thick; skin thin, tender, separates from 

 the pulp; flesh white, juicy, fine-grained, tender, sweet yet sprightly; fair 

 in quality; stone clinging, round-oval, plump, abruptly pointed, with small 

 grooves in the surfaces. 



535. Greensboro (Fig. 176) takes high place among peaches 

 because of its showy fruits and its large, vig- 

 orous, healthy, early-bearing, and prolific 

 trees. The peaches, while handsome, are in 

 no way remarkable, the quality being rather 

 inferior, so that it is the tree that gives 

 Greensboro its standing. The peaches are 

 less susceptible to brown-rot than most other 

 varieties of Greensboro's season, but to offset 

 this advantage there are many cracked pits ^^^' ^ bm-o.^^^^°^' 

 and accompanying malformations. Greens- 

 boro was grown by W. G. Balsey, Greensboro, North Carolina, 

 about 1891. 



Tree very large, spreading, hardy, very productive. Fruit early; 2^ 

 inches in diameter, oblong-oval, often oblique, bulged at one side, com- 

 pressed, with unequal sides; cavity deep, narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, 

 deepening toward the cavity; apex rounded, witlf a small mucronate tip; 

 color creamy-white, blushed with red, with a few stripes of darker red 

 intermingling; pubescence heavy, nearly tomentose; skin tough, separates 

 from the pulp; flesh white, very juicy, tender, mild, sprightly; fair in 

 quality; stone semi-clinging, ovate, strongly bulged along one side, with 

 short grooves on the surfaces. 



