THE JACQUES PEACH. 



Jacques. American Orchardist. 



Jacques' Yellow Rareripe, Anwrican OrcJiardist, 1st Ed. 

 Jacques' Rareripe, Piince' s Pomological Maniud. 



The Jacques is a well known and extensively cultivated variety in 

 the vicinity of Boston, and throughout Massachusetts. Previous to 

 the introduction of the Early Crawford, it was considered the largest 

 and finest yellow peach. It still holds a high place in the estimation of 

 peach growers, producing as it does, under good treatment, beautiful 

 specimens ten to twelve inches in circumference. Mr. Prince states in 

 his Pomological Manual, that specimens have been raised weighing six- 

 teen to seventeen ounces each. 



Its origin or introduction is attributed to Col. Jacques, of Somerville, 

 Mass., though we have no authentic information on this point. It was 

 first described by Mr. Kenrick, under the name of Jacques' Yellow 

 Rareripe ; but in the subsequent edition of his work, he called it simply 

 the Jacques, a preferable name, and the one under which it is now 

 cultivated. 



The Jacques is, as we have said, a very large peach, — as large, or 

 larger, than the Crawford ; it is also very handsome, with a deep yellow 

 skin, and a brightly tinted red cheek, with only a moderately downy 

 surface. Its juice is very abundant, rich and deHcious. 



The tree is a good grower, with moderately stout reddish shoots, and 

 a rather spreading habit. It appears unusually hardy, and produces 

 fine crops. It ripens a week or so after the Early Crawford. 



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



Flowees. — Small, pale red. 



Fruit. — Large, from three to four inches broad, and three to three 

 and a half inches deep : Form, roundish, with a shallow suture ending 

 in a depression at the summit, one side shghtly larger than the other ; 

 cavity at the base broad but not very deep : Skin, yellow, streaked and 

 mottled with red in the shade, and of a lively red in the sun : Flesh, 

 deep yellow, melting, and rayed with red at the stone, from which it 

 parts freely : Juice, tolerably abundant, sweet, sprightly and excellent : 

 Stone, medium size, ovate, not very rugged. 



Ripe about the middle of September. 



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