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deep, medium to narrow, flaring; suture shallow, deepening toward the 

 apex; apex rounded with a slightly pointed and swollen beak-like tip; color 

 deep yellow, dully or brightly blushed, with the red cheek splashed with 

 darker red; pubescence short, fine; skin thick, tough; flesh yellow, stained 

 with red at the pit, juicy, firm, sweet, richly flavored; very good in quality; 

 stone free, ovate, flattened, bulged on one side, blunt-pointed, with surfaces 

 deeply pitted and grooved. 



556. Chili. HilVs Chili. — Chili is now waning in popularity, 

 after having been for nearly a century one of the mainstays 

 of commercial orchards the country over. The peaches are not 

 attractive in size, color or shape ; are too dry of flesh to eat 

 with pleasure out of hand ; and are made less agreeable to sight 

 and taste by pubescence so heavy as to be woolly. The trees 

 are vigorous, very hardy, long-lived, and annually fruitful. 

 Chili came into cultivation early in the nineteenth century in 

 the orchard of Pitman Wilcox, Chili, New York. 



Tree medium in size, compact, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, produc- 

 tive. Fruit late; 2^/^ inches in diameter, oblong-conic, angular, compressed, 

 with unequal halves; cavity uneven, shallow, contracted, flaring, the skin 

 tender and tearing easily; suture shallow, extending beyond the apex; apex 

 pointed ; color orange-yellow, with a dark red blush, splashed and mottled 

 with red; pubescence long, thick, coarse; skin thin, tough, separates from 

 the pulp ; flesh red at the pit, yellow, dry, stringy, firm but tender, mild, 

 sprightly; good; stone free, flattened at the base, obovate, winged, usually 

 without bulge, long-pointed at the apex with pitted surfaces. 



557. Salwey is a yellow-fleshed freestone peach, one of the 

 best for canning, preserving, and evaporating. The trees are 

 vigorous, hardy, healthy, and very productive, but their crop 

 is so late in northern peach regions that the variety cannot be 

 depended on. Salwey is a standard sort in France, England, 

 and in America from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Can- 

 ada to the Gulf. It was raised in 1844 by Colonel Salwey, 

 Egham Park, Surrey, England. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, becoming drooping, very productive. Fruit 

 very late; 2^ inches in diameter, round-cordate, compressed; cavity deep, 

 abrupt, often splashed with red; suture shallow, often extending beyond 

 the tip ; apex usually a small elongated point ; color greenish-yellow, mostly 

 with a brownish-red blush, splashed with dark red ; pubescence short, thick, 

 fine; skin thin, tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh golden-yellow, faintly 

 tinged with red near the pit, juicy, tender, sweet, pleasantly flavored, arc- 



