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wide, roundish-cordate, with unequal surfaces; cavity variable in depth and width, abmpt 

 or flaring, often with twig-mark across the cavity; suture variable in depth, extending 

 beyond the tip; apex roundish, mamelon or mucronate, recurved; color greenish or creamy- 

 white, sometimes with a lively red blush, mottled and splashed with darker and duller 

 red; pubescence thick, coarse; skin tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh white, stained with 

 red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender, pleasantly flavored, sweet or somewhat sprightly; 

 good to very good in quality; stone free or nearly so, one and one-half inches long, one 

 and one-sixteenth inches wide, oval to ovate, plump, with deeply grooved surfaces; ventral 

 suture deeply grooved along the edges, strongly furrowed; dorsal suture deeply grooved. 



LEMON FREE 



I. Wickson Cal. Fruits 313. 1889. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 3. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:218. 

 1899. 4. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Matt. 2:349. 'goS- 5- Waugh Atti. Peach Orch. 204. 1913. 



Lemon. 6. Rural N. Y. 47:131. 1888. 7. Atti. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1889. 8. Otit. Fr. Exp. Sta. 

 Rpt. 2:59. 1895. 



Lemon Free is a yellow-fleshed, freestone, lemon-shaped, lemon- 

 colored peach ripening in late mid-season. The fruit is not sufficiently- 

 attractive in appearance to sell vi-ell in the markets and, besides, is too 

 thin-skinned to ship or keep well. The quality is very good, the flavor 

 being sweet, rich and delicious, though possibly the flesh is a little too dry 

 to permit the variety being ranked as " very good." It is an excellent 

 peach for culinary purposes having the reputation of making a handsomer 

 canned product than any other peach. Lemon Free is little grown in the 

 eastern states but it is one of the leading sorts of its season in parts of 

 California. The color-plate shows the shape very well but the color is 

 not quite that of the real peach. 



This variety seems to have originated in Ohio about 1885 but nothing 

 is known of its parentage, originator or introducer. Wickson, in California 

 Fruits, claims California as its birthplace but this, we think, is an error. 

 In 1889 the American Pomological Society placed Lemon Free in its fruit- 

 catalog as Lemon but in 1899 changed the name to Lemon Free. 



Tree very large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, hardy, rather unpro- 

 ductive; trunk thick, smooth to medium; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown tinged 

 with light ash-gray ; branchlets often very long, with a tendency to rebranch, with mediimi 

 to long intemodes, pinkish-red with but a trace of green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with 

 large, raised, russetty lenticels mediimi in number. 



Leaves seven inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded upward and 

 curled downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thick, leathery; upper surface dark olive- 

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

 finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with 

 tv\"o to six rather large, reniform, reddish-brown glands variable in position; flower-buds 



