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Tree above metHum size, vigorous, upright-spreading, productive; trunk thick and 

 smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown mingled with hght ash-gray; branchlets 

 slender, often very long, olive-green with some red, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with 

 numerous conspicuous, raised lenticels variable in size, usually russetted toward the 

 base. 



Leaves six inches long, over one and one-half inches wide, flattened or cnirled down- 

 ward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dull, dark green, smooth 

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

 tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one 

 to four small, globose glands variable in color and position. 



Flower-buds tender, large, medium to short, heavily pubescent, obtuse, very plump, 

 usually free; blossoms open in mid-season; flowers one and one-eighth inches across, light 

 pink, darker along the edges, usually single; pedicels long, slender, glabrous, greenish; 

 calyx-tube reddish-green, greenish-yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes 

 acute, glabrous within, lieavily pubescent without, flattened; jjetals ovate, tapering to 

 short, narrow claws; filaments seven-sixteenths inch long, equal to the petals in length; 

 pistil longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; two and three-eighths inches long, two and one-eighth 

 inches wide, round-oval, somewhat compressed, with unequal halves; cavity shallow, 

 narrow, flaring or abrupt, often tinted with red, compressed about the sides; suture a line 

 or very shallow, often extending beyond the tip; apex round, with a recurved, mucronate 

 or mamelon tip ; color green or creamy-white, with few splashes of dull red over a livel^• 

 red blush; pubescence long, coarse, thick; skin thin, tough, variable in adherence to the 

 pulp; flesh white, deeply stained with red near the pit, juicy, tender and melting, 

 pleasantly sprightly, aromatic; good in quality; stone free, one and one-half inches long, 

 more than an inch wide, red, obovate to oval, flattened toward the base, plvunp, tapering 

 to a short point, often winged on the ventral suture, with surfaces pitted and marked 

 by short grooves; ventral suture deeply grooved along the edges, narrow; dorsal suture 

 grooved, slightly winged. 



TRIANA 



I. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:^19. 1S96. 2. Fla. Sta. Bui. 73:i.S-. 1904. 3. Glen St. Mary Nur. Cut. 

 23. 1906. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1909. 



Triana is another of the honey-fleshed, beaked peaches supposed to 

 thrive only in the far South. It can be grown, however, with about as 

 much certainty in New York as many of the standard varieties of the North. 

 Its small size and poor shipping qualities debar it from competing with 

 commercial peaches in this region but it is well worth planting in home 

 orchards for the sake of variety and because of its delicious flavor — a 

 sort of scented sweetness wholly unknown in northern varieties. The 

 good health, vigor, size and hardiness of these honey-peaches on the Station 

 grounds is a constant surprise to those who have believed that they could 

 be grown only in the Gulf States. 



