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put this peach on its fruit-hst under the name Kenrick Heath but dropped 

 it from the hst in 1S99. Ten years later, 1909, the variety was replaced 

 in the Society's catalog as Heath Free. 



Tree very large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, unproductive; trunk thick, 

 somewhat shaggy; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown covered with very light ash- 

 gray; branchlets long, with many short, spur-like branches near the tips, with internodes 

 dark red intermingled with olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with numerous con- 

 spicuous lenticels, raised near the base and tip. 



Leaves seven and one-eighth inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded 

 upward, recurved slightly, long-oval to obovate-lanceolate, rather thin; upper surface 

 dark green, smooth becoming rugose near the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; margin 

 finelj- serrate, with reddish-brown glands; petiole one-half inch long, with two to five 

 reniform, reddish-brown glands usually on the petiole. 



Flower-buds half-hardy, conical or pointed, very pubescent, free; blossoms appear in 

 mid-season; flowers dark pink along the margins of the petals changing to white toward 

 their centers, well distributed; pedicels short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green, 

 yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, narrow, acute to obtuse, glabrous 

 within, pubescent without; petals small, narrow-oval, often broadly notched near the 

 base, tapering to short, broad claws red at the base; filaments one-fourth inch long, equal 

 to the petals in length; pistil pubescent at the base, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in late mid-season ; two and one-eighth inches long, two and one-fourth 

 inches thick, roundish-oval to oblong-oval, often strongly compressed, with halves nearly 

 equal; cavity meditmi to shallow, wide, flaring, contracted along the sides, with tender 

 skin; suture shallow; apex roundish, with a depressed, mucronate tip; color creamy-white, 

 blushed or mottled with red, with splashes of deeper red; pubescence rather coarse, thick; 

 skin thick, tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh white, bronzed at the pit, juicy, coarse, firm 

 but tender, mild subacid with some astringency; good in quality; stone free, one and three- 

 eighths inches long, one inch wide, flattened near the base, oval, with long grooves deeply 

 sunken in the surfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the edges, wide; dorsal suture 

 grooved, faintly winged. 



HILEY 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpl. 170. 1899. 2. Del. Sta. Rpl. 13:102 fig. 7, 103. 1901. 3. U. S. D. A. 

 Yearbook 271, 272, PI. 34. 1903. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cal. 37. 1909. 



Early Belle. 5. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:342. 1903. 6. \V. N. Y. Ilort. Soc. Rpl. 12. 

 1907. 



In spite of keen competition with many other early, white-fleshed 

 peaches, there seems to be a place for Hiley. Two characters make it 

 notable in its class. It is the earliest commercial freestone, white-fleshed 

 peach and it is rather better in quality than most of its competitors. Well 

 grown, the peaches are large in size and handsomely colored but the 

 fruits are not quite as uniform in either size or color as could be desired 

 for a commercial variety. The trees, while productive, are neither large 



