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pointed at the base, with the surfaces grooved and pitted; ventral suture winged, narrow, 

 with furrows of medium depth along the sides. 



GREENSBORO 



I. Mich. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 2,^8. 1896. 2. Am. Pom. .Sot. Cat. 33. [899. 3. Kan. Hort. Soc. Peach, 

 Ttu- 49, 143. 1899. 4. Del. Sla. Rpt. 13:101 li};. (>, 102. 1901. 5. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 9:37, 38. 

 1902. 6. IF. N. Y. Ilorl. Soc. Rpt. 11. 1907. 7. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 202. 1913. 8. .V. Y. State 

 Fr. Cr. Assoc. Rpt. 16. 1915. 



Balsey. 9. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 289. 1893. 



Greensboro is one of the leading early, white-fleshed peaches. It 

 takes high place because of its showy fruits and its large, vigorous, healthy, 

 early-bearing and prolific trees. In the last character, in particular, 

 Greensboro is almost supreme — year in and year out, barring accidents, 

 its trees are fruitful. Possibly, too, no other white-fleshed peach is adapted 

 to a greater variety of soils than Greensboro which, with fair capacity to 

 stand heat and cold, makes it suitable for wide variations in peach-regions. 

 The peaches, while handsome, as the color-plate shows, are in no way 

 remarkable, the quality, if anything, being rather inferior, so that it is 

 the tree that gives Greensboro its standing. The variety is well thought 

 of by fruit-dealers not only on account of the attractive product but 

 because the fruits carry well and keep long. Possibly the peaches are 

 less susceptible to brown-rot than most other varieties of Greensboro's 

 season but to offset this advantage there are many cracked pits and 

 accompanying mal-formed fruits. Picked green the stone clings; picked 

 at maturity the variety may be called a freestone. AU in all, Greensboro 

 is one of the best early, market peaches for New York. 



Greensboro is a seedling of Connett grown by W. G. Balsey, Greens- 

 boro, North Carolina, about 1891. It was introduced by John A. Young 

 of Greensboro as Balsey, this name being changed to Greensboro in 1894. 

 Greensboro was added to the list of fruits recommended by the American 

 Pomological Society in 1899. 



Tree very large, spreading, open-topped, hardy, very productive; trunk thick, shaggy; 

 branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown covered with light ash-gray; branchlets slender, 

 long, with short intemodes, dark red intermingled with oli\^e-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, 

 with very small, conspicuous lenticels. 



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

 recurved, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thick, leathery; upper surface dark green, smooth, 

 rugose along the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with 

 reddish-brown glands; petiole one-half inch long, with one to five reniform, reddish-brown 

 glands usually at the base of the blade. 



