478 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



seed of Elberta. The mother tree stood near a tree of Salway, which 

 variety is supposed to have been the other parent. The original tree, 

 which is still living, began bearing at the age of 3 years and has 

 produced seven successive crops, yielding 20 crates of peaches in 

 1904. Its relatively late season of ripening, coupled with the pro- 

 ductiveness of the tree and the beauty and fine quality of the fruit, 

 soon led to its propagation for planting in orchards, and in 1905 to its 

 extensive propagation for commercial dissemination and introduc- 

 tion by C. W. Wood, Swan, Tex., and John F. Sneed, Tyler, Tex. 

 The arbitrary word "Augbert " was registered as a trade-mark for it 

 in the United States Patent Office, June 26, 1906, by Milton E. 

 Fowler, of Lindale, Tex., and its formal introduction appears to 

 date from that year. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form oblong oval; size large; cavity regular, large, deep, abrupt, 

 marked with red; stem stout; suture deep, extending beyond apex; 

 apex conspicuous, protruding one-fourth to three-eighths inch 

 above the general outline; surface smooth; color yellow, blushed, 

 mottled and striped with crimson; dots minute; down short, loose, 

 velvety ; skin moderately thick, tenacious ; stone long, ovate, pointed, 

 medium to large, red, free ; flesh thick, yellow, stained with deep red 

 at the stone, tender, melting, juicy; flavor subacid, vinous; good to 

 very good; tree vigorous, productive; leaves lanceolate, of medium 

 size, with short petioles; glands reniform; flowers small. Season 

 August 1 to 20 in Smith County, Tex., two to four weeks after 

 Elberta. 



The Augbert, combining, as it apparently does, the productiveness, 

 beauty, and carrying quality of the Elberta with the later ripening 

 season and better dessert quality of Salway, is considered especially 

 promising for Texas and other southern peach districts where a good 

 commercial peach ripening later than Elberta is desired. 



The specimens illustrated on Plate XLIY were grown by Milton E. 

 Fowler, Lindale, Smith County, Tex. 



CHAMPION PEACH. 

 [PLATE XLV.] 



Among the hardy peaches introduced during the past twenty years, 

 perhaps none has more steadily advanced in the estimation of grow- 

 ers in the peach districts of the Middle Western States than the 

 Champion. This variety was originated from seed of Oldmixon 

 Free (supposedly crossed with Early York) by Mr. I. G. Hubbard, 

 Xokomis, 111., now of San Marcos, Tex., in 1880. a It was first bud- 



a Letters of I. G. Hubbard, August 18, 1890, March 20, 1909. 



