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According to Leroy, this variety was mentioned as early as the Fourteenth Century. 

 It has been much confused with Avant-Peche Blanche. Tree vigorous; glands reniform; 

 flowers large; fruit medium in size, roundish; cavity deep; apex mamelon; skin thin, heavily 

 pubescent, golden-yellow, mottled with dark brownish-red; flesh firm, yellow, carmine 

 at the stone, juicy, sweet, aromatic; stone small, roundish, jjlump, strongly sutured, free; 

 ripens the middle of July. 

 Avant-Precoce. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:157, 158, fig- 15- 1883. 



(ilands reniform; flowers medium in size; fruit small to medium, nearly round; a]:)ex 

 mucronate; suture deep; cavity narrow, small; skin firm, thin, heavily pubescent, whitish- 

 yellow, purple where exposed; flesh white, stained with red at the stone, firm, sugary, 

 juicy, aromatic; stone small, oval; ripens late in July. 

 Avant-Precoce Pavie. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1883- 



Listed but not described. 

 Avocat CoUignon. i. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 387. 1889. 



Listed but not described. 

 Azoo Cling. I. Tex. Sta. Bui. 8:34. 1889. 



Listed as growing in Texas. 

 Babcock. i. A'. Y. Sta. Rpt. 15:289. 1897. 



Grown at one time on the Station grounds. 

 Bagby Large, i. Elliott Fr. Book 293. 1859. 



The tree of Bagby Large has a peculiar, slender, drooping gi'owth. The fruit, which 

 is esteemed for drying, is oblong, white and juicy; ripens the middle of August. 

 Bailey, i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 244. 1893. 2. Ibid. 417, 418. 1898. 3. Ibid. 89, 90. 

 1899. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 35. 1909. 



Friday Seedling. 5. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 373, 377. 1896. 



Cedar County Hardy. 6. Ibid. 373. 1896. 



Bailey is a very hardy peach grown in southeastern Iowa. It was named after Dr. 

 Bailey, West Branch, Iowa, who grew the variety most extensively. In Scott County, 

 it is known as Friday seedling, after its originator, Jacob Friday. The variety was listed 

 by the American Pomological Society in 1909. Bailey reproduces itself from seed and 

 has been distributed throughout Iowa by this means, which accounts for the difTerences 

 that appear in different localities. The variety as it grows on the Station grounds is very 

 susceptible to mildew; leaves deeply serrated, glandless; fruit small, white; freestone; 

 worthless for New York. 

 Baker Cling, i. Del. Sta. Rpt. 5:97. 1892. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Baker Early, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 161. 1881. 



Baker Early May. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc: Rpt. 50. 1879. 



A very early freestone of southern origin which resembles Hale Early. 

 Baldwin, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 44. 1891. 



Baldwin October Free. 2. U. S. Pat. Of. Rpt. 279. 1854. 



Baldwin Late. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 18. 1871. 4. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:233. 1898. 



Baldwin originated with Dr. William Baldwin, Montgomery-, Alabama. It became 



