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producing some fine varieties. The most striking 

 result, to date, is a tree bearing a rich, rosy, pink 

 blossom, fully two inches in diameter, which is 

 produced in greatest abundance, on trees of 

 strong growth, which show no propensity to 

 droop like the oriental tree, and which appear to 

 be resistant to curl leaf and mildew. 



This large, vigorous, healthy tree, bearing a 

 profusion of bright pink flowers, has very un- 

 usual ornamental value. But, in addition to this, 

 this new variety bears an abundance of fruit, 

 large in size, and almond-shaped, which is of 

 fairly good quality when fresh, although scarcely 

 to be compared with standard peaches, but which 

 when cooked is probably unsurpassed by any 

 peach, having a delightful almond flavor. 



This particular variety is a cross of the crim- 

 son-flowering oriental peach and the hybrid Muir 

 peach, and is a product of the first generation. 



Especial interest attaches to the results of 

 crossing the oriental peaches with peaches of the 

 occidental stock because, as in the case of so 

 many other fruits, the peach of the Orient is 

 widely divergent from the European type, al- 

 though doubtless both have the same remote 

 origin. As in the case of our other chief fruits, 

 the native home of the peach was doubtless south- 

 ern and central Asia and eastern Europe, and 



