352 THE PEACHKS OF NEW YORK 



Early Rose III. i. W. P.. Stark Cat. 49, 50 fig. :91s. 



Early Rose III, according to W. P. Stark, Stark City, Missouri, was grown by John 

 Keller, Fort Valley, Georgia, from the pit of a Honey-flavored peach crossed with one of 

 the Indian peaches. Tree a moderate grower, rather small; flowers large; fruit of medium 

 size, a rich, deep red; flesh white, rich, sweet; clingstone; ripens with Eureka. The fruit is 

 handsomely colored and is said to sell for a fancy price wherever known. Unfortunately, 

 it seems not yet to have lieen tried in the North. 

 Early Royal George, i. Kenrick .4»(. Ore/?. 220. 1832. 2. Mag. //ori. 14:538. 1848. 



Early George. 3. Tex. Sta. Bui. ^giSii. 1896, 



This variety may be an American seedling of Royal George. Fruit large, roundish; 

 skin yellowish-white, splashed with red in the sun; flesh juicy, tender, vinous, free; fair to 

 good in quahty; ripens in August. 

 Early Sam. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1883. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Early Silver, i. Hogg Fn/;7 Man. 220. 1866. 2. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:343. 

 1903. 



Argentee Precoce. 3. Thomas Guide Prat. 43, 215. 1876. 



Silver. 4. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:107. 1901. 



This variety was grown by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, in 1857, from a 

 seed of White Nectarine. Fruit large, roundish-ovate, with a shallow suture; color creamy- 

 white, slightly sprinkled with red; flesh entirely white, melting, juicy, with a vinous, 

 pleasant, subacid flavor; stone free; quality good to very good; ripens from the middle to 

 the last of August. 

 Early Strawberry, i. Ariz. Sta. Bui. 15:62, 67. 1895. 



Grown at one time in Arizona. 

 Early Tallman. 1. A'lich. Sta. Sp. Bui. 40:19. 1907. 



This is a small, white-fleshed peach of fair quality, ripening with Triiomph. It is a 

 semi-clingstone and of no value. 

 Early de Tours, i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 96. 183 1. 



Listed but not described. 

 Early Victoria, i. Card. Chron. 946. 1861. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:143, i44. fig- 8. 

 1883. 



Victoria. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1909. 



Early Victoria should not be confused with the Victoria of the South. This variet>- 

 first fruited in 1854 with Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, from a stone of Earh- 

 York. In 1909 the American Pomological Society added it to its fruit-list as Victoria. 

 Leaves glandless; flowers large; fruit of mediimi size, rotmdish; skin pale yellow, with a 

 maroon blush; flesh white, melting, juicy, sweet; stone free, small; season very early, a 

 week before its parent. 

 Early Wheeler, i. U. S. D. A. Yearbook t,6o, i(>\.V\. 28. 1906. 



This is one of a large number of Heath Cling seedlings grown by E. W. Kirkpatrick, 

 McKinney, Texas, about 1900. Tree moderately productive; glands reniform; blossoms 

 very large; fruit medium to large, roundish-oblong; ca\-ity large, broad; apex protruding; 



