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Society listed Smock in its catalog as Smock Freestone. In 1873 the name 

 was shortened to Smock and it so appears today. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, somewhat drooping, dense-topped, tall, usually 

 very productive; trunk medium to thick, rough; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown 

 with very light ash-gray tinge; branchlets slender, medium to long, with short intemodes 

 tlark red intermingled with olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with large, raised 

 lenticels. 



Leaves six and one-fourth inches long, one and one-half inches wide, flattened or 

 curved downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thick; upper surface dull, dark green; 

 smooth; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with dark red glands; 

 petiole three-eighths inch long, with none to five small, globose or reniform glands variable 

 in color and position. 



Flower-buds tender, conical or pointed, slightly pubescent, appressed or free; blossoms 

 appear in mid-season; flowers less than one inch across, white at the center of the petals, 

 light or dark pink near the edges, often in twos; pedicels short, glabrous, greenish; calyx- 

 tube reddish-green at the base, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes 

 broad, acute, serrate, glabrous within, pubescent without, partly reflexed; petals oval, 

 irregular in outline near the base, tapering to long, narrow claws often- reddish at the 

 base; filaments three-eighths inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent 

 near the base, equal to or longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures very late; two and one-half inches long, two and three-eighths inches 

 wide, oval, irregular, often btilged near the apex, compressed, with halves imequal and 

 somewhat angular; cavity narrow, abrupt, contracted around the sides, twig-marked; 

 suture a mere line, becoming deeper toward the apex; apex roundish, with a recurved, 

 mucronate tip; color greenish-yellow or sometimes orange-yellow, specked and mottled 

 with dull, dark red or sometimes faintly tinted with a bronze blush; pubescence very 

 heav>', thick, fine; skin thin, tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, faintly tinged with 

 red near the pit, variable in jtiiciness, tender, sprightly, pleasantly flavored; good in quality ; 

 stone free, one and five-eighths inches long, one and one-sixteenth inches wide, oval or 

 obovate, bulged near the apex, flattened toward the base, with deeply grooved surfaces; 

 ventral suttire narrow, winged, deeply grooved along the sides; dorsal suture a wide and 

 deep groove, winged. 



STEVENS 



I. Budd-Hanscn Am. Ilort. Man. 2:356, 357. 1903. 



Slevens Rareripe. 2. N. J. Horl. Soc. Rpt. 42. 1878. 3. ArK. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1889. 4. Ont. 

 Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 22:31, 32. 1890. 5. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:227. 1899. 6. Ont. Pr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 

 9:38. 1902. 7. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 207. 1913. 



Stevens is one of the fruits of the generation just past — a large, white 

 and red, white-fleshed, freestone peach. The variety is best known 

 as Stevens Rareripe but the last part of the name is inapt for the 

 true rareripes are earlier ripening peaches while with Stevens latenes:; 

 is one of its prime assets. In quality the fruits are extra good, the flesh- 



