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1906 by this company. Tree vigorous, productive; fruit medium in size, roundish-oval. 

 with a shallow suture; color creamy- white, mottled and striped with considerable bright 

 red; flesh white, firm, juicy, sweet, semi-adherent; quality good; season early. 

 Maurice Desportes. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:160 fig., 161. 1879. 



This peach was raised about 187 1 by Baptiste Desportes from a seed of Grosse Mig- 

 nonne and named after his son, Maurice. Tree vigorous, productive; glands small, globular; 

 flowers of meditmi size; fruit mediiim in size, globular, compressed at both ends; sutiu-e, 

 wide, shallow; skin tender, covered with short hairs, washed with red on a pale yellow 

 ground; flesh white, faintly red at the pit, melting, very juicy, acidulated, aromatic; very 

 good; stone small, plvunp, free; ripens the middle of August. 

 May Choice, i. Batavia Nur. Cat. 27. 1905. 



A very desirable peach ripening immediately after Early Crawford which it resembles 

 but excels in quality, according to the Batavia Nurseries, Batavia, New York. 

 May Peach, i. Cw/iCTOior 3rd vSer. 4:146. 1856. 



A very early, white-fleshed peach which may be Kleiner Weisser Fnihpfirsich. 

 Mayflower, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. ioo<). 2. .4/a. Sta. Bui. 156:134. 191 1. 

 3. N. J. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 100. 1911. 4. Kcv. Hart. 66, 67. igii. 



Tree productive; fruit of medium size, oval, with a pointed apex; color greenish- 

 white, with a dark red blush; flesh greenish-white, juicy, tender, subacid, adherent; quality 

 fair; season very early. 

 Melocotone. i. Parkinson Par. Ter. 580. 1629. 



Malacotune. 2. Langley Pomona 107, PI. ^^ fig. 4. 1729- 



Fruit yellowish-green, with a deep red blush; flesh firm, chnging, with a pleasant 

 flavor; ripens early in September. 

 Melting, i. Elliott Fr. Book 293. 1854. 



An unproductive variety of American origin; glands globose; fruit large; flesh white, 

 stained with red at the stone; freestone; ripens in September. 

 Mena. i. Mo. State Fr. Sta. Rpt. 13. 1905-06. 



Mena is a semi-free peach, with yellow flesh, ripening the middle of August. 

 Mendenhall. i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 426. 1898. 



This is a white-fleshed seedling, bearing regularly near Des Moines, Iowa. 

 Merlin, i. Rivers Cat. 29. 1909-10. 



EmSrillon. 2. Thomas Guide Prat. 55, 218. 1876. 



Merlin is a large, luscious, pale peach from a pit of Fruhe Mignonne; flavor rich; 

 ripens early in August. 

 Merriam. i. Cole Am. Fr. Book 197. 1849. 



E. Merriam, Roxbury, Massachusetts, first grew this variety; glands globose; fruit 

 large, short-oval, light yellow, with a bright red cheek; flesh tinged at the stone, melting, 

 very sweet, juicy; ripens October ist. 

 Merriman. i. Mich. Sta. Sp. Bui. 44:56, 57. 19 10. 



Found on the Merriman farm near Bangor, Michigan. A yellow freestone ripening 

 just after Smock. 



