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VICTOR 



WALDO 



depressed ; cavity deep, abrupt ; skin yellow with a 

 dark red cheek ; flesh yellow, red at the pit, firm, sweet 

 but vinous, rich ; quality very good to best ; stone large, 

 clinging. 



VICTOR. Early Victor. This variety is 

 occasionally to be found in northern orchards, 

 but its culture is confined almost wholly to 

 Texas, where, because of its very early season, 

 it is esteemed both for home orchards and for 

 market. The peaches are characterized by a 

 distinct almond flavor, at the same time sweet 

 and rich, which makes it a favorite with con- 

 noisseurs of good peaches. The variety is of 

 unknown parentage, and originated with John 

 B. Bass, Bass, Texas, some time previous to 

 1901. 



Tree vigorous, upright, medium in size, open, healthy, 

 productive. Fruit very early, medium in size, round- 

 oblong ; color creamy-white with a red blush ; flesh 

 creamy-white, melting, juicy, subacid, rich and sweet 

 with decided almond flavor ; quality good to very good ; 

 stone of medium size, plump, semi-cling. 



WADDELL. Fig. 179. Waddell is an early 

 midseason, white-fleshed, semi-cling peach 

 from Georgia, a very evident descendant of 

 Chinese Cling. The variety is now widely 

 grown and is everywhere esteemed as a com- 



179. Waddell. (x%) 



mercial sort. Its chief competitor is Carman, 

 compared with which the fruit ripens a few 

 days earlier; is handsomer, in color at least, 

 the two being very similar in size and shape; 

 is of rather finer texture of flesh, better flav- 

 ored; and is a better shipper. The variety has 

 not been nearly so widely nor so generally 

 planted as the better-known Carman, but it 

 has been a greater factor in the success of a 

 score or more of the big commercial peach- 

 orchards, North and South, of the last few 

 years. It is a particularly pleasing peach, and 

 ought to be considered for every commercial 

 plantation where a variety of its season is 

 wanted. Waddell is a chance seedling found 

 by William Waddell, Griffin, Georgia, about 

 1890. 



Tree medium in size, vigorous, spreading, with the 

 lower branches inclined to droop, hardy, productive. 

 Leaves 6 inches long, 1% inches wide, obovate-lance- 

 olate, leathery ; margin finely serrate ; teeth tipped 

 with reddish-brown glands ; petiole % inch long, with 

 1-4 small, globose, reddish-brown glands. Flowers mid- 

 season, 1% inches across, red becoming pale pink, in 

 clusters of twos. Fruit early midseason ; 2 % inches in 

 diameter, round-oval, compressed, with unequal halves ; 



cavity deep, abrupt, with tender skin, tinged with pink ; 

 suture shallow, deepening toward the apex and extending 

 beyond ; apex rounded, with a small, mucronate tip ; 

 color creamy-white, blushed with red and with dull 

 splashes of darker red ; pubescence thick ; skin tough, 

 separates from the pulp ; flesh white, stained with 

 pink near the pit, juicy, stringy, firm, sweet but 

 sprightly, aromatic ; very good in quality ; stone semi- 

 free to free, ovate ; ventral suture deeply grooved along 

 the sides, faintly winged. 



WAGER. Fig. 180. Hardiness, productive- 

 ness, and early bearing are the outstanding 

 characters of Wager that give it a high place in 

 the peach-list. The fruit is a yellow-fleshed 

 freestone, none too attractive in coloring, al- 

 ways rather small, and of only fair quality as a 



180. Wager. (X%) 



dessert fruit, but excellent for canning, drying, 

 and all culinary purposes. The variety comes 

 true to seed, or nearly so. The fruits of Wager 

 are not attractive enough, and the trees are too 

 small to make the variety of much value in 

 commercial plantations, but it is a very good 

 peach for home orchards and one of the best 

 of all where hardiness is a prime requisite. 

 Several distinct peaches are sold by nursery- 

 men as Wager. The variety originated some 

 time previous to 1870 with Benjamin Wager, 

 West Bloomfield, New York. 



Tree medium in size or small, upright-spreading, 

 hardy, productive. Leaves 5% inches long, 1*4 inches 

 wide, obovate-lanceolate, thin, leathery ; margin finely 

 serrate ; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands ; petiole 

 % inch long, 2-4 small, globose or reniform glands. 

 Flowers midseason, 1 inch across. Fruit midseason ; 

 2% inches in diameter, oval, sometimes conical, com- 

 pressed, with unequal halves ; cavity abrupt, often 

 mottled with red and with tender skin ; suture a line, 

 becoming deeper toward the tip ; apex pointed, with 

 a mamelon, recurved tip ; color orange-yellow, blushed 

 and mottled with dark red ; pubescence thick, long and 

 fine ; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp ; flesh 

 yellow, faintly stained with red near the pit, meaty 

 but tender, sweet, mild ; good in quality ; stone free, 

 ovate, flattened near the base, with pitted surfaces, 

 marked with few short grooves. 



WALDO. Waldo is a peach of the Peento 

 type which ripens with Peento, and is consid- 

 ered valuable for Florida and the coastal belt 

 of the Gulf states. It is generally regarded 

 as one of the best of its group for commercial 

 purposes in the region in which it grows. The 

 variety originated from a seed of Peento 

 planted by T. K. Godbey, Waldo, Florida, 

 about 1886. 



Tree large and productive, open-topped, healthy ; glands 

 reniform. Fruit early, round-ovate, large ; suture shal- 

 low but distinct ; apex blunt, often with a strongly 



