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matic; very good in quality; stone free, oval, very plump, pointed at the 

 base, with large pits and short grooves in the surfaces. 



Section III. Flesh Red 



558. Blood Cling is the favorite curiosity of the peach or- 

 chard. The fruit is pleasant to eat out of hand and is much 

 used for pickling and preserving, for which purpose it has 

 much merit. This is an American seedling raised many years 

 ago from the Blood Clingstone of the French. The fruit is 

 much larger than that of the parent, but otherwise is much the 

 same. 



Tree large, vigorous, round, compact, hardy, unproductive. Fruit very 

 late; 1% inches in diameter, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity nar- 

 row, abrupt, usually white; suture shallow; apex round, with a mucronate 

 tip; color dull greenish-white, entirely overspread with dingy pink with 

 splashes and stripes of darker clouded red, mottled; pubescence long, coarse; 

 skin tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh red, becoming lighter colored at the 

 stone, juicy, stringy, tough and meaty, brisk, pleasantly flavored; fair in 

 quality; stone clinging, obovate, short-pointed, strongly bulged near the 

 apex, with grooved and pitted surfaces. 



DIVISION B. FLESH HONEY SWEET ; FRUITS OBLATE 

 OR GLOBOSE AND BEAKED 



Section IV. Fruit Oblate 



559. Peento. Chinese Flat. — Peento was the first variety 

 of a group of peaches to which it gives its name, now common 

 in the Gulf regions. The peach is flattened endwise, with a 

 flat stone, so different from the fruits of other members of 

 Prunus as to make this about the most unique of all drupe- 

 fruits. Besides being remarkable for shape, the fruits are dis- 

 tinguished by a rich sweet flavor with a savor of the almond. 

 Peento came from Java to England, whence it was imported to 

 America in 1828 by William Prince. 



Tree vigorous, tender in the North, productive. Fruit early; l^/^ inches 

 thick, 2^2 inches wide, strongly oblate; cavity shallow, very wide, flaring; 

 suture deep, wide, extending two-thirds around the fruit; apex depressed, 

 set in a large, wide, flaring basin; color creamy-yellow, mottled and 

 delicately pencilled with red, often blushed toward the apex; pubescence 

 short, thick; skin thick, tough, nearly free; flesh white, stained red at the 

 stone, juicy, stringy, tender and melting, sweet, mild, with an almond-like 



