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Leaves six and three-fourtlis inches lon^, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded 

 upward, recurving at the tip, lanceolate, thin, leathery; upper surface dark green, smooth 

 becoming rugose along the midrib; lower surface olive-green, with prominent midrib; 

 margin singly or doubly serrate; petiole five-sixteenths inch long, thick, with one to five 

 reniform, dark brown glands of medium size; flowers appear in mid-season. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; three inches long, three and one-fourth inches wide, 

 regular, round, with equal halves; cavity deep, wide, regular; suture a mere line, very 

 shallow or with almost no depression ; apex roundish, with a small tip set in a depression ; 

 color lemon-yellow overspread with attractive dark red and with mottlings and splashes 

 of carmine; pubescence light; skin thick, tough, separates but poorly from the pulp; flesh 

 yellow, red around the pit, juicy, fine-grained, sweet or somewhat sprightly; good in 

 quality; stone free, one and three-fourths inches long, one and one-fotuth inches wide, 

 oval, plump, flattened at the base, pointed at the apex, with grooved and pitted surfaces; 

 ventral suture furrowed, deeply grooved along the sides; dorsal suture winged, deeph- 

 grooved. 



JENNIE WORTHEN 



1. Mich. Sla. Bui. 31:58. 1887. 2. Munson Cal. 8. 1890-91. 3. ///. Ilorl. Soc. Rpt. 183. 1898. 

 Worthen. 4. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. ^. 1895. 5. -l/iV/i. .S/a. Sh/. 169:229. 1899. 

 Jennie. 6. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:812. 1896. 



Jennie Worthen is given a place among the major varieties in The 

 Peaches of New York with the hope that New York growers may be 

 induced to try it as a high-grade, yellow-fleshed, freestone variety to 

 precede Elberta. It is enough to say that it is very similar to Early 

 Crawford — best of all early peaches — and on the Station grounds is 

 more productive, unproductiveness being the fault that keeps Early 

 Crawford from being a money-making variety. Whether or not Jennie 

 Worthen can be grown commercially, it is well worth planting in the 

 home orchard. 



But little is known of the history of this variety. According to a 

 letter from the late T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas, it originated in Illinois 

 with a Mr. Worthen and was named for his daughter. The Munson 

 Nursery grew the variety for a few years after its introduction but has 

 since discontinued its propagation. 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, hard}', productive; trunk thick, smooth; branches 

 thick, nearly smooth, reddish-brown mingled with light ash-gray; branchlets of medium 

 thickness, tending to rebranch near the tips, with intemodes of medium length, dark 

 pinkish-red intermingled with green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with numerous conspicuous, 

 small, raised lenticels. 



Leaves six and one-half inches long, one and three-eighths inches wide, curled both 

 upward and downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin, leathery; upper surface dark green, 

 rugose near the base of the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, 



