190 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



of Seneca Lake. The name Garfield was given to this peach by some 

 one but why or when does not appear. The variety was added to the 

 American Pomological Society's recommended list of fruits in 1899, a 

 distinction it has since held. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, unproductive; trunk 

 thick; branches stocky, rather smooth, reddish-brown overlaid with light ash-gray; branch- 

 lets slender, with tendency to branch, long, olive-green overlaid with dark red, smooth, 

 glabrous, with numerous large and small, inconspicuous, irregiilarly shaped and often 

 raised lenticels, the expansion of which causes a cracking of the bark. 



Leaves five and seven-eighths inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide, folded 

 upward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin; upper surface dark green, rugose; lower surface 

 light grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with dark glands; petiole nearly one-half 

 inch long, glandless or with one to four small, globose, greenish-yellow glands variable 

 in position. 



Flower-buds oblong-conic, pubescent, somewhat shrunken, usually free; blossoms 

 open in mid-season. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; two and one-half inches long, two and three-fourths 

 inches wide, round-oval to cordate, compressed, bulged beak-like near the apex; cavity 

 deep, medium to wide, abrupt or flaring, often colored with red ; suture shallow, becoming 

 deep near the apex ; apex roundish, with a pointed or recurved, mamelon tip ; color greenish- 

 yellow changing to pale orange-yellow, speckled and splashed with dull red which often 

 extends over nearly the whole surface ; pubescence long, thick, woolly ; skin thin, somewhat 

 tough, separates from the pulp only when fully ripe ; flesh j-ellow, juicy, coarse, firm, tender, 

 sweet, mild, pleasant flavored; very good in quality; stone semi-free to free, one and one- 

 fourth inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval, decidedly bulged on one side, with a 

 rather long and slightly curved point, with pitted and grooved surfaces; ventral suture 

 deeply furrowed along the edges, medium in width; dorsal suture grooved, slightly winged. 



CANADA 



1. Mich. Sla. Bui. 118:33. 1895. 



Early Canada. 2. Card. Mon. 20:237. 1878. 3. Ibid. 27:144, 145. 1885. 4. Mich. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt. 80. 1897. 5. Bogue Ca;. 25. 1905. 



Canadische FrUhpfirsich. 6. Mathieu iVo/n. Pom. 391. 1889. 



Since its introduction some twenty-five years ago, Canada has been 

 a standard early peach in the northern states and more particularly in 

 the peach-growing region along Lake Ontario in Canada where it originated. 

 The variety has few characters to commend it excepting earliness and 

 hardiness though the trees often load themselves with fruit. The peaches, 

 though small, are attractive in color which is bright red on a light back- 

 ground. The red is well shown in the color-plate though the fruits 

 illustrated are rather smaller than usual. Canada is about the poorest 

 of all peaches in flavor. The fruits are firm and ship well for a white- 



