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tinged with red near the base; filaments five-sixteenths inch lonj;, equal to the petals in 

 length; pistil pubescent at the ovarj', longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures late ; about two and one-half inches in diameter, round-oval to cordate 

 bulged near the apex, compressed, with markedly unequal halves; cavity shallow, wide, 

 uneven in outline, flaring or abrupt, with tender skin; suture shallow, often extending 

 beyond the tip; apex round or pointed, with a recurved, mucronate tip; color creamy-white, 

 blushed, mottled and splashed with red; pubescence long, thick, coarse; skin thin, tough, 

 separates from the pulp; flesh white, strongly stained with red near the pit, juicy, tender 

 and melting, sweet, rich, pleasantly flavored, aromatic; very good in quality; stone nearly 

 free, one and one-half inches long, one and one-sixteenth inches wide, ovate to oval, 

 plump, flattened toward the base, tapering to a long point, with grooved surfaces; ventral 

 suture deeply marked along the edges, narrow, sometimes winged; dorsal suture grooved. 



SUMMER SNOW 



I. Okla. Sta. Bui. 2:15. 1892. 2. Mich. 67a. Bui. 118:31. 1895. 3. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 

 691. 1897. 4. Mich Sta. Bui. 169:227. 1899. 5. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 7:55. 1900. 



Summer Snow is a ctiriosity with some value for culinary purposes 

 Its distinctive peculiarities are a skin almost pure white and flesh white 

 as snow from skin to pit. The quality is poor and the flesh clings to the 

 pit so tenaciously that the variety has no value, whatsoever, for dessert 

 but is said to be excellent for pickling and to make a very good and a very 

 distinctive canned product. 



There are no records of the origin of this peach but it is doubtful if 

 it dates back more than a quarter of a century. The variety is very 

 similar to the old Snow, which was probably its prototype, differing 

 essentially in having a clinging stone while the stone of Snow is free. In 

 New York the name is a misnomer as the fruit does not ripen until the 

 last of September or early in October. Albino peaches date back to the 

 early records of this fruit and seem to be known wherever peaches are 

 grown. Whenever seedling peaches are grown in large numbers, an 

 occasional albino appears. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, slightly drooping, productive; trunk thick 

 and smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown mingled with very light ash- 

 gray; branchlets very long, inclined to rebranch, with internodes of medium length, 

 olive-green intermingled with light brown, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, russet- 

 colored lenticels. 



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

 curved downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin; upper surface dull green, smooth; 

 lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; 

 petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to six small, globose and reniform 

 glands variable in color and position. 



