THE COOLIDGE'S FAVORITE PEACH. 



Coolidge's Favorite. Kenrick's American Orclmrdist, 1st Ed. 



One of the oldest, if not the best, of our numerous American 

 seedhng peaches is the Coohdge's Favorite. It has long been in 

 cultivation around Boston, in the neighborhood of which city it 

 originated ; and more recently it has found its way into all parts of 

 the country, proving, wherever grown, one of the richest of its class, 

 quite equal to the Grosse Mignonne, — to which it appears allied, — the 

 acknowledged standard of European peaches. In general appearance 

 it resembles the latter variety; but it is scarcely so dark and richly 

 colored, and is rather more depressed in form; it also ripens a few 

 days sooner. 



This superior peach was raised by the late Mr. Joshua Coohdge, of 

 Watertown, Mass., upwards of thirty years ago, though we cannot 

 ascertain the exact period. Mr. W. Kenrick first described it in his 

 work, above quoted, and also disseminated it extensively from his nursery, 

 at Newton. No collection of any extent, in New England, is consid- 

 ered complete without it; it is a hardy and vigorous tree, a most 

 extraordinary bearer, and the fruit, which is remai'kably beautiful, 

 possesses a rich, vinous, and refreshing flavor, not surpassed by any 

 other peach. 



Coolidge's Favorite is an early variety, ripening usually about the 

 twenty-fifth of August, or between that and September first, just after the 

 Early Anne and Early York, and a few days before the Early Crawford. 

 It also possesses the good quality of forcing well, and is, in conse- 

 quence, admirably adapted for peach houses, or for forcing in pots, 

 for which purpose it is exceedingly popular. As a market frait, it 

 always commands a ready sale, and if fine specimens, a high price. 



Leaves. — Medium size, crenate, with globose glands. 



Flowers. — Small, pale red. 



Fruit. — Medium size, about two and a half inches broad, and two 

 and a quarter deep : Form, roundish, with a shallow suture extending 

 to the apex, one side a little larger than the other ; cavity at the base 

 small and deep : Skin, very fair, pale yellowish white in the shade, 

 with a brilliant coloring of deep red in the sun, somewhat marbled, 

 with minute crimson dots extending to the shady side : Flesh, yel- 



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