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Leaves six and three-fourths inches lonj^, one and three-fourths inches wide, oval tc 

 obovate-lanceolate; upper surface dull, dark olive-green, mottled and somewhat rugose; 

 lower surface grayish-green; margin finely to coarsely serrate, often in two series, tipped 

 with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to six reniform, 

 greenish-yellow glands medium in size and variable in position. 



Flower-buds large, pubescent, conical or obtuse, plump, appressed; flowers appear 

 in mid-season; blossoms light pink near the center, darker pink toward the edges, one and 

 one-foiu-th inches across; pedicels short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green, orange- 

 colored within, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; 

 petals oval to ovate, bluntly notched near the base, tapering to broad, short claws red at 

 the base; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, 

 longer than the stamens. 



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

 inches wide, roimdish-oblong or cordate, compressed, usually with a slight bulge at one 

 side; cavity deep, abrupt to flaring, often mottled with red; suture shallow, deepening 

 toward the apex; apex roundish, with a mamelon or pointed tip; color greenish-yellow 

 changing to orange-yellow, from one-fourth to three-fourths overspread with red and 

 with much mottling extending sometimes over nearly the entire surface; pubescence thick 

 and coarse; skin thick, tough, separates from the pulp; flesh yellow, stained with red near 

 the pit, juicy, stringy, firm but tender, sweet or subacid, mild; good in quality; stone free, 

 one and eleven-sixteenths inches long, one and one-sixteenth inches wide, broadly ovate, 

 varying from flat to plump, sharp-pointed, decidedly bulged on one side, with pitted sur- 

 faces; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the sides, narrow, winged; dorsal suture deeply 

 ^T-ooved. strongly winged. 



ENGLE 



1. Mick. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 192, 296, 299. 1893. 2. Mich. Sla. Bui. 169:213. 1899. 3. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat. 37. 1909. 4. Mich. Shi. Sp. Bui. 44:39, 40. 1910. 



Engol's Mammoth. 5. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sla. Rpt. 2:5s. 1895. 6.7^.6:43. 1899. 



Engle is almost a cotinterpart of the well-known Late Crawford from 

 which it differs essentially in earlier ripening fruit and more productive 

 trees. Before Elberta became the vogue, Engle stood high in the esteem 

 of commercial planters in Michigan and its culture was rapidly spreading 

 into other states but the coming of Elberta stopped its career. There 

 seems little doubt but that Engle is more productive than either of the 

 two Crawfords, splendid peaches which fail because of unproductiveness, 

 and for those who want the best it is as good as any of this group — 

 quite too good to be lost. One of the faults of the two Crawfords is that 

 the trees are tardy in coming in bearing. Engle is said to bear younger. 

 On the Station grounds the fruit drops rather too readily but we do not 

 find this fault mentioned by others. 



Engle was grown some forty years ago by C. C. Engle, Paw Paw. 



