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Stump-of-the-World. 14. X. J. Hort. Soe. Rpl. ^i, 42. 1878. 

 Peche dit New-Jersey. 15. I^roy Diet. Pom. 6:t<)s,, 196 fig. 1879. 

 Late Slump. 16. Ark. Sta. Bui. 43:102. 1896. 



Stump has long been a favorite white-fleshed, freestone, late peach 

 of the Oldmixon type. It is not a handsome fruit, the color-plate flattering 

 rather than detracting from its appearance, but makes up in quality what 

 it lacks in looks. The flesh is melting, juicy, sparkling, rich and good 

 though dry and very mediocre if permitted to overripen. The peaches 

 are too tender for distant shipment and the variety is of value only for 

 local markets and home use. The trees are large, vigorous, hardy, healthy 

 and productive, with a shapely, upright-spreading, dense-topped head — - 

 about all that could be desired in a peach-tree. In spite of the high 

 quality of the peaches and the splendid tree-characters. Stump is steadily 

 waning in popularity and will, no doubt, soon pass from cultivation. 



We can say little of the history of Stump other than that it originated 

 in New Jersey at least three-quarters of a century ago. A Mr. Brant, 

 Madison, New Jersey, in a report on peaches at the meeting of the New 

 Jersey Horticultural Society in 1878 mentions a variety as Stump-of-the- 

 World which originated on the farm of Samuel Whitehead in Middlesex 

 County, New Jersey, about 1825. Mr. Brant, however, considered this 

 sort distinct from Stump although very similar to it. From the description 

 he gives it seems certain that he was describing the true Stump. In 1862 

 the American Pomological Society listed this sort in its catalog as Stump 

 the World. The name was shortened to Stiunp in 1897 by the committee 

 on nomenclature in accordance with pomological rules. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, productive; trunk 

 medium in diameter, smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown tinged with 

 light ash-gray; branchlets thick, inclined to rebranch, long, with intemodes dark red 

 mingled with olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with many conspicuous, small, raised 

 lenticels. 



Leaves six and three-fourths inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded 

 downward, broad-oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dull, dark green, 

 rugose along the midrib ; lower surface grayish-green ; margin finely serrate, often in two 

 series, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole seven-sixteenths inch long, with one 

 to four globose glands variable in color and position. 



Flower-buds semi-hardy, pubescent, conical to pointed, pltunp, usually more or less 

 free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers thirteen-sixteenths inch across, white at the 

 center, becoming pink near the margin; pedicels long, slender; calyx-tube dull reddish- 

 green, yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes acute, obtuse, glabrous within, 

 pubescent without : petals oval, faintly notched near the base, tapering to very short claws 



