VARIETIES OE PEACHES 361 



flavor; very good in quality; stone clings, red, strongly oblate, with corru- 

 gated surfaces; ventral suture very deep at the edges, narrow at the base, 

 becoming wide at the apex; dorsal suture a wide deep groove, merging into 

 a line at the apex. 



Section V. Fruit Globose and Beaked 



560. Climax (Fig. 192) is a honey-sweet freestone peach 

 adapted only to the far South, where the 

 fruits are large and attractive. In the North, 

 the peaches are small, unattractive in color, 

 drop badly, are disfigured by peach-scab, and 

 have only honeyed sweetness to recommend 

 them. The variety was introduced by G. L. 

 Taber, Glen St. Mary, Florida, in 1896. 



Tree small, vigorous, upright-spreading, round- 

 FiG. 192. Climax. topped, dense, productive. Fruit midseason; 2% 

 inches in diameter, oval, slightly compressed, with 

 unequal sides; cavity shallow, flaring^ splashed with red; suture shallow; 

 apex conic, with a long swollen often recurved tip; color creamy white, 

 occasionally with a blush or faint mottlings of red toward the base; pubes- 

 cence short, thick; skin thin, adherent to the pulp; flesh white stained 

 with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, melting, very sweet, mild; very good 

 in quality; stone semi-free to free, oval, plump, bulged on one side, long- 

 pointed at the apex, with pitted and grooved reddish-brown surfaces. 



561. Pallas (Fig. 193) is one of the best of the several honey- 

 flavored beaked peaches. It is supposed to 



thrive only in warm climates, but in New 

 York the trees are vigorous, appear to be 

 hardy, and differ from northern varieties, so 

 far as life events are concerned, only in 

 holding their leaves longer. The fruits run 

 small and lack uniformity in size, the 

 peaches are not attractive in appearance, 

 suffer terribly from brown-rot, and do not 

 ship well. In quality Pallas is almost un- Fig. 193. Pallas, 



approachable, — so rich, sweet, aromatic, and 

 delicious as well to justify the sobriquet, *'Honeydew," bestowed 

 on it. Pallas is one of the many seedlings of Honey and origi- 

 nated in 1878 with L. E. Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia, 



