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pubescence thick, coarse; skin adhering to the pulp; flesh pale yelIo\\- to the pit, variable 

 in juiciness, pleasantly sprightly; good in quality; stone free, one and nine-sixteenths 

 inches long, one and one-sixteenth inches wide, broadly ovate, bulged at one side, with 

 a pointed apex and deeply grooved surfaces; ventral suture deeply grooved at the sides, 



rather narrow; dorsal suture with a deep groove, wing-like. 



GOVERNOR HOGG 



n. Pom. Sor. Oil. 37. 



Were it not that Governor Hogg must compete with the well-estab- 

 lished Greensboro and Carman, we should say at once that it was well 

 worth tr\4ng in commercial planting in New York as an early, white- 

 fleshed peach. In the Station orchard, Governor Hogg ripens a few days 

 after Carman, is larger, handsomer and as good in quality. In both 

 appearance and quality, Governor Hogg excels Greensboro, the size, shape 

 and color of the two, as the illustrations show, being much the same 

 though the color of this variety runs more to reds and soft tints of red. 

 The flesh is firm, though tender and delicate, and the peaches ought to 

 stand shipment well. As with all of these early, white-fleshed peaches. 

 Governor Hogg is quite susceptible to both leaf-curl and brown-rot. 



The parentage of this peach is unknown. It seems to have originated 

 with a Mr. McClung, Tyler, Texas, about 1892, and was disseminated 

 by Messrs. Sneed and Whitaker of the same place. The American Pomo- 

 logical Society placed Governor Hogg on its fruit-list in 1909. 



Tree large, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, variable in productiveness; trunk 

 thick, reddish-brown intermingled with light ash-gray; branches slender, with short inter- 

 nodes, brownish mingled with red and ash-gray, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with man\- 

 conspicuous, large and small, lenticels. 



Leaves five and one-half inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upward 

 and slightly recurved, usually oval-lanceolate, medium in thickness, leathery; up]ier surface 

 dark oli\-e-green, smooth; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with 

 reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to five reniform, 

 reddish-bro\vn glands of medium size, variable in position; flower-buds conical, plump, 

 pubescent, appressed; blossoms open in mid-season. 



Fruit matures early; two and one-fourth inches long, more than two inches wide, 

 oblong-oval, compressed, oblique; cavity deep, narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming 

 deeper at the, cavity; apex depressed, with a mucronate tip; color creamy-white, blushed 

 with red ; pubescence short ; skin thin, separates from the pulp ; flesh white, juicy, stringy, 

 meat_\', rather tough; good in quality; stone clinging, one and three-eighths inches long, 

 seven-eighths inch wide, obovate, piixmp, strongly bulged on one side, conspicuously winged. 



