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Early York (Early Purple, Pourpr(^e Hative, Serrate Early York). The Early 

 York has long been the most popular of early peaches in this country. It is at 

 least a week earlier than the (true) Royal George, more melting and juicy, though 

 not quite so rich, and deserves a place in every garden. In unfavorable soil, the 

 ends of the branches are a little liable to mildevkf, but the tree is very productive 

 and hardy. There are one or two newer seedlings from this, bearing the same 

 name, in New Jersey, which are rather more thrifty for the orchard, but do not 

 possess the high flavor of the old kind. They are easily known from it by the 

 absence of glands on the leaves and by the large flowers of the true sort. It 

 is quite distinct from the Red Rareripe, which is large, broad, deeply marked 

 with a suture, later in ripening, and richer flavored. Leaves serrated, without 

 glands; flowers large; fruit of medium size, roundish, inclining a little to 

 ovate, with a slight suture only; skin very thin, pale red, thickly dotted over 

 with a pale ground in the shade but quite dark red in the sun; flesh greenish 

 white, remarkably tender and melting, full of rich, sprightly juice. Ripens about 

 the 18th of August. (Downing.) 



Early York (Large Early York, Honest John). Large, roundish, inclining 

 to oblate in fully grown specimens; nearly white in the shade, with red dots, and 

 with a deep red cheek to the sun; flesh nearly white, fine grained, very juicy, 

 with mild, rich, excellent flavor; flowers small. (Thomas.) 



Elberta. Medium to above average size, round oval, strongly sutured; 

 lemon yellow, blush on sunny side; flesh pale yellow, tender, juicy. Tree vigor- 

 ous, with large leaves, hardy — a cross of Chinese Cling and Crawford's Early. A 

 good shipper. One of the best of the newer varieties. Origin, Georgia. (Thomas.) 



Emma. Habit tall and eccentric; wood brittle; growth and health by no 

 means satisfactory: foliage thick, leaves large; glands reniform ; bloomed March 

 13, 20, 31; ripe July 28; fruit very large, globular; skin bright yellow, with red 

 blush ; color somewhat paler than Elberta, but much resembling it ; flesh yellow, 

 red at stone; stone free; quality seems but slightly inferior to Elberta; in pro- 

 ductiveness fully equal to Elberta, with no rot. (Bulletin No. 42 of Georgia Ex- 

 periment Station.) 



Emperor [of Russia] (Cut-leaved, Serrated, New Cut-leaved, Unique). A 

 very rich and fine-flavored fruit, raised by Mr. Floy, in 1812. Its growth is slow 

 and its shoots are inclined to become mildewed; it is a rather shy bearer; the 

 leaves are very deeply cut or serrated on the edge, without glands; flowers small; 

 fruit large, roundish and broad, with one half more swollen than the other; skin 

 downy, dull yellowish white, with a dark red cheek ; flesh yellowish white, rather 

 firm, rich, and high flavored; last of August. (Downing.) 



Excelsior. (See Crosby.) 



Foster. Originated with J. T. Foster, Medford, Mass. Tree said to be 

 hardy, vigorous, and productive; a good market variety: fruit large, slightly 

 flattened, with a slight suture, stem moderately depressed; flesh yellow, very 

 rich and juicy, with a pleasant subacid flavor; freestone, of medium size; color 

 a deep orange red, becoming very dark on the exposed side ; ripe from the 

 middle to the last of September. (Downing.) 



Fox's Seedling'. Round, slightly compressed, cavity narrow ; white, with 

 a red cheek; juicy, sweet, good; flowers small. Season medium or rather late 

 New Jersey. (Thomas.) 



