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Florida, about 1892. Fruit large, roundish-oblong; suture distinct; skin thin, tender, 

 finely pubescent; flesh white, streaked with red at the stone, juicy, spicy, subacid; quality 

 \'cry good; stone large, elliptical, sharply pointed, free; ripens in Florida the last of June. 

 Colonel Ansley. i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 93. 1831. 



Resembles Harrington, the two being listed as the same by some writers. 

 Colonel McFarland. 1. Card. Mon. 24:338. 1882. 



A seedling of Late Crawford originating in 1874 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Tree 

 strong, vigorous, spreading; fruit large, yellow, with a red cheek; flesh juicy, rich, high 

 in quality; freestone; ripens the middle of October. 

 Colonel Tom Ruff in. i. Van Lindley Cat. 16. 1892. 



An early, white-fleshed clingstone, ripening about July 20th, according to the catalog 

 of the J. Van Lindley Company, Pomona, North Carolina. 



Columbia, i. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 226, fig. 10. 1817. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:19, 20. 

 1832. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 491. 1845. 4. Hooper W. Fr. Book 216, 217. 

 1857. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 78. 1862. 6. Am. Jour. Hort. 3:343. 1868. 

 7. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:99 fig., 100. 1879. 



Virginia. 8. Mo. Bd. Agr. Rpt. 1:411. 1865. 



This singular peach was raised more than a century ago by William Coxe from a pit 

 brought to New Jersey from Georgia. While it reproduces itself from seed with consider- 

 able exactness, most of the seedlings show variations in shape and color. Nurserymen 

 have, therefore, grown many different types but all having the general characteristics of 

 the original fruit. The American Pomological Society placed Columbia in its fruit-list 

 in 1862 where it has since remained. Tree moderately hardy and productive; glands reni- 

 form; fruit large, roimd, broad and considerably depressed, with a distinct suture; skin 

 rough, thick, dingy red, sprinkled with spots and streaks of darker red; flesh yellow, often 

 with a red streak next the skin, rich, juicy, melting, with the texture of a very ripe pine- 

 apple; quality good; freestone; season the last of September. 

 Columbus June. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 610. 1857. 



Fruit medium to large, flattened, with a shallow suture; skin pale yellowish-white, with 

 a rich red cheek; flesh red at the pit, melting, juicy, pleasant-flavored; good; stone free; 

 ripens in the South the middle of June. 



Comet. I. Mag. Hort. 29:52. 1863. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 216. 1866. 3. Tex. Sta. 

 Bui. 39:811. 1896. 



Comet was raised from a pit of Salwey by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, 

 fruiting for the first time in 1857, when the great comet of that year was in its zenith. 

 Glands reniform; flowers small; fruit roundish; skin yellow, with a crimson cheek; flesh 

 yellow, melting, jviicy; stone free; matxires early in October. 

 Cornice d' Angers, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:100 fig., loi. 1879. 



Jautie du Cornice. 2. Mas Le Verger 7:195, 196, fig. 96. 1866-73. 



Hdtive de Gascogne. 3. Thomas Guide Prat. 52, 219. 1876. 



Madeleine du Cornice. 4. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:186. 1883. 



This variety, received from Angers, France, is grown commercially in that locality. 

 Glands both reniform and globose; flowers small, with deep rose-color; fruit large, spherical. 



