198 THE PEACIIKS OF NEW YORK 



sort under the name " Hill's Chili "; placed under this name on the fruit 

 list in 1873; and changed to Chili in 1897. 



Tree medium in size, compact, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, i^roductive; trunk 

 thick, shaggy; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown covered with light ash-gray; 

 branchlets unusually long, with spur-like branches near the tips, dark reddish-green, glossy, 

 smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves folded upward and recurved, six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, 

 long-oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin; upper surface dark, dull olive-green, smooth; lower 

 surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole 

 three-eighths inch long, with two to seven small, usually reniform, reddish-brown glands 

 mostly on the petiole. 



Flower-buds small, short, obtuse, plump, pubescent, nearly free; blossoms appear 

 in mid-season; flowers pink, one and one-half inches across, well distributed; pedicels 

 short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube red at the base, orange-colored within, campanulate, 

 glabrous; calyx-lobes short, medium to broad, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; 

 petals oval, faintly notched near the base, tapering to short claws of medium width, tinged 

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

 near the base, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit late; two and one-half inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, oblong- 

 conic, somewhat angular, compressed, with imequal halves; cavity imeven, shallow, medium 

 to wide, contracted, abrupt or flaring, the skin tender and tearing easily; suture shallow, 

 sometimes extending beyond the apex ; apex slightly pointed ; color greenish-yellow changing 

 to orange-yellow, with a dark red blush, splashed and mottled with red; pubescence long, 

 thick, coarse; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp; flesh stained red at the pit, yel- 

 lowish, dry, string>', firm but tender, mild but sprightly; good in quality; stone free, one 

 and one-half inches long, fifteen-sixteenths inch wide, flattened wedge-like at the base, 

 oval to obovate, winged, usually without bulge, long-pointed at the apex, with pitted 

 surfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed, wide; dorsal suture deeply grooved. 



CHINESE CLING 



1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 636. 1857. 2. Horticulturist 14:107. 1859. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 

 18. 1871. 4. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:85, 86, 95, 107, fig. 4. 1901. 



Shaiighae. 5. Mag. Hort. 17:464. 1851. 6. Card. Chron. 693. 1852. f. Downing Pt. Trees Am. 

 641. 1857. 



Chinese Peach. 8. Horticulturist N. S. 3:286, 472. 1853. 



Shanghai. ^. Hogg Fruit Man. 22,1. 1866. 



De Chang-Hai. 10. Mas ie Ferger 7:211, 212, fig. 104. 1866-73. 



Chinese Cling holds a high place in the esteem of American pomol- 

 ogists for its intrinsic value, because it was the first peach in one of the 

 main stems of the peach-family to come to America, and because it is the 

 parent, or one of the parents, of a great number of the best white-fieshed 

 peaches grown in this country. The variety is not now remarkable for 



