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lanceolate, of medium thickness, leathery; upper surface dark green, smooth becoming 

 rugose along the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; apex acuminate; margin finely 

 serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole five-sixteenths inch long, with one to 

 six small, globose, reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds hardy, conical to pointed, pliunp, pubescent, free; blossoms appear in 

 mid-season; flowers seven-eighths inch across, with varying shades of pink, sometimes- 

 in twos; pedicels short, medium to thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green at 

 the base, orange-colored within, somewhat campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, 

 medium to narrow, acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals oval, notched near 

 the base, tapering to long, narrow claws often tinged with red at the base; filaments five- 

 sixteenths inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent near the base, as- 

 long as or longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures very late ; about two and one-half inches in diameter, roundish-cordate, 

 compressed, with very unequal halves; cavity medium to deep, wide, abrupt to slightly 

 flaring, with tender skin and often twig-marked; suture deep, extending beyond the tip; 

 apex mamelon, recurved, a few fruits with very large, mucronate tips; color greenish or 

 golden-yellow, with splashes of dull red and a lively blush covering one cheek; pubescence 

 short, thick, fine; skin thick, adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, juicy, stringy, meaty, 

 mild or somewhat astringent, pleasantly flavored; fair to good in quality; stone clinging, 

 one and one-half inches long, one inch wide, bulged on one side, ovate to oval, pliunp, 

 winged, with surfaces marked by short, red grooves; ventral suture deeply furrowed along 

 the edges, wide; dorsal suture a deep groove. 



LOLA 



1. Del. Sta. Rpl. 13:104. 1901. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 37. 1909. 



Lolo. 3. Cornell Sta. Bui. 74:373- 1894- 4- -l'"- Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 5. Budd-Hansen 

 Am. llort. Man. 2:349, 350. 1903. 



Miss Lola. 6. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 43, Vh IV. 1895. y. Rural N. V. 60:67s. 1901. 8. A^. 1'. 

 Sla. Bui. 364:184. 1913. 



Miss Lulo. 9. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:808. 1896. 



Lola is a popular peach in parts of the South but is hardly known in 

 New York. On the Station grounds it is the best of its season and one of 

 the best of all white-fleshed peaches. Moreover, it fills a gap in the peach 

 procession that ought to make it valuable in this State. It follows Mamie 

 Ross and Greensboro, both of which it surpasses in appearance and quality. 

 It precedes Champion and is even better than that handsome and delicious 

 peach. Since it ripens with the well-known Carman, fruit-growers will 

 want to know how it compares with that variety. It is hardier in bud 

 than Carman, that sort not having a single fruit after the cold winter 

 of 1911-12 while Lola bore a fair crop; the fruit is of better quality, larger, 

 hardly as well colored and on the Station grounds the tree is more productive. 

 Attention of New York peach -growers was called to Lola, in words almost 



