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Until very recently it was supposed to be too tender 

 to be grown outside of Florida; but in 1902 the va- 

 riety was discovered growing thriftily and fruiting 

 nicely on the grounds of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, Amherst, Mass. The variety is said to 

 grow in China as far north as Tien-Tsin. These 

 things suggest that the Peen-to group may have 

 a northern range much beyond that now assigned 

 to it. 



The peaches are unusually easy of classifi- 

 cation on purely arbitrary lines, and such 

 classifications have accordingly been in most 

 general use. The one which we may take as 

 representative of them all, and which is, at 

 the same time, one of the best yet devised, is 

 the classification of John J. Thomas. This 

 arrangement was used in the various editions 

 of "The American Fruit Culturist."* The 

 " Synopsis of Arrangement " follows, a few va- 

 rieties being named in each group by way of 

 illustration. These varieties are named and 

 classified here exactly as given in Thomas' 

 book. Many varieties of recent introduction 

 might, perhaps, be used better byway of illus- 

 tration ; but this would require not only a 



* The edition which I have in hand as I write this is dated 

 1885. In this volume the "Synopsis of Arrangement " for 

 peaches is givan on p. 331. 



