1 82 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



ARP 



I. N. Y. Stale Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 24. 1913. 



Arp Beauty. 2. .V. J. Ilort. So,. Rpt. lou. lyii. 3. A^. Y. State Fr. Cr. Assoc. Rpt. 21,^. 1913. 

 4. N. Y. Sta. Bill. 364: iH:^. 1913. 



Arp is the earliest good yellow peach. This is the chief reason for its 

 cultivation though it has other good characters beside earliness to give it 

 a place among yellow peaches. At this Station the trees are healthy, 

 vigorous, productive and hardier in bud than the average, the buds having 

 withstood the cold of two test winters. The round-oval shape and shallow 

 suture give it a pleasing appearance of rotundity. To its shapeliness, add 

 a skin creamy-yellow, heavily blushed with red and covered with short, 

 thick pubescence with the sheen of velvet, and you have a beautiful 

 peach — well shown in the color-plate. The flesh is light yellow, firm, 

 juicy, sweet, rich, and of excellent quality, but unfortunately clings rather 

 tenaciously to the stone. The season of Arp is from a month to five weeks 

 earlier than Elberta and for so early a peach is remarkably long. It is 

 somewhat susceptible to brown-rot. We do not know from experience 

 how the fruit will ship but believe it will stand the wear and tear of trans- 

 portation and markets as well as any of the standard peaches. Arp ought 

 to be in every home orchard. Attention is called to the fact that the 

 June Elberta. in the hands of some growers is Arp. 



Arp originated with C. P. Orr, Arp, Texas, about 1897. Elberta is 

 supposed to have been one of the parents while the other may have been a 

 peach of the Indian type. The variety was introduced by the originator 

 about 1902. 



Tree rather large, vigorous, spreading, hardy, productive; trunk stocky, intermediate 

 in smoothness; branches thick, smooth, reddish-bronze overlaid with light ash-gray; branch- 

 lets with intemodes intermediate in length, pinkish-red mingled ^\■ith green, smooth, 

 glabrous, with many smallish lenticels. 



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

 ovcJ -lanceolate, sometimes inclined to obovate, thin, somewhat leathery; upper surface 

 dark green; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-browm 

 glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to three large, reniform, greenish-yellow 

 or reddish-brown glands usuall}- at the base of the leaf. 



Flower-buds intermediate in size and length, plump, oblong-conic, pubescent, 

 appressed; blossoms opening in mid-season; flowers light pink, one and three-fourths 

 inches across; borne seldom in twos; pedicels short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube dark 

 reddish-green, dull orange within, campanulate, glabrous; cah-x-lobes long, medium in 

 width, obtuse to acute, glabrous within, heavily pubescent without; petals round-obovate. 



