THE "PEACH-ALMOND" HYBRID 



Leonard Coates 



Mor<ia7jhill, California 



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Till. M)-(.iilcu rcacli-Almond" 

 has been known in California for 

 70 years. Prof. E. J. Wickson 

 has enfleavored to trace its orij^in, 

 and founrl that it was first heard of in 

 the nurseries of \V. H. West of Stockton, 

 one of our pioneer nurserymen, in tlie 

 early fifties. And further research 

 developed the fact that Rivers of Kng- 

 land speaks of showing it to Darwin 

 who said it had long ago been described 

 and catalogued in j-rance. 



The aconipanying illustrations 

 show characteristics of fruit and give 

 evidence of vigor of tree. The leaves 

 and wood resemble a very lusty 

 almond. The fruit, for several months, 

 looks like an immature, growing peach, 

 until the pericarp sjilits ojumi, revealing 

 the pit, which is more like that of the 

 peach, but smoother. The pulpy 

 pericarp is sweetish and insipid. 



My own first acquaintance with the 

 "Peach-Almond" was in 1877, in the 



