WHEATLAND 



YELLOW RARERIPE 



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marked, recurved tip ; skin yellow washed with a deli- 

 cate red and with a distinct blush on the sunny side ; flesh 

 yellowish-white, pinkish near the pit, juicy, the sweet, 

 delicious flavor similar to that of Peento ; stone rather 

 small. 



WHEATLAND. Wheatland is a large, 

 yellow-fleshed, freestone peach of excellent 

 quality, which ripens just before Late Craw- 

 ford. It is popular in Michigan and very much 

 grown in Colorado and Utah. The fruit is 

 about all that could be desired, but the trees 

 are so unproductive that the variety is seldom 

 grown with profit. The beauty and high qual- 

 ity of the fruit make Wheatland desirable for 

 home orchards. The variety is a chance seed- 

 ling found about 1870 on the grounds of Daniel 

 E. Rogers, Scottsville, New York. 



Tree medium to large, vigorous, upright-spreading, 

 with the lower branches drooping, hardy, rather unpro- 

 ductive. Leaves 6 Ms inches long, 1% inches wide, 

 obovate-lanceolate, leathery ; margin finely serrate ; 

 teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands ; petiole -fa 

 inch long, with one to five small, globose and reniform, 

 reddish-brown glands. Flowers late, 1 inch across, light 

 pink becoming darker along the edges. Fruit mid- 

 season ; large, round ; suture yellow, blushed and mot- 

 tled with red ; skin separates from the pulp ; flesh 

 yellow, stained red around the pit, juicy, firm but 

 tender, sweet, pleasantly flavored ; good in quality ; 

 stone free, ovate, broad at the base, with pitted sur- 

 faces. 



WONDERFUL. Wonderful originated in 

 New Jersey about 1889, and, after being culti- 

 vated in the East for a few years, was dis- 

 carded in all peach regions except in the 

 South and Southwest. The peaches are very 

 similar -to those of Smock, with which they 

 are often confused. It is doubtful whether 

 the variety should have a place where the 

 better known Smock can be grown. 



Tree medium to large, vigorous, upright-spreading, 

 branches becoming drooped with age, only moderately 

 productive ; glands small, both globose and reniform 

 in shape and varying in color. Flowers late, 1 inch 

 in diameter, pale pink with darker pink at the edges. 

 Fruit very late, medium in size, zy a inches in diameter, 



oval, drawn in along the suture ; cavity deep and narrow, 

 abrupt ; suture shallow, sometimes very faint but deep- 

 ening at the apex ; apex roundish with a mamelon tip 

 which is often somewhat recurved ; color light golden- 

 yellow freckled with red, mottled, blushed and striped 

 with deeper red ; pubescence thick, long and coarse ; skin 

 rather thick, tender and adherent to the flesh ; flesh yel- 

 low, red at the pit, rather dry, coarse, somewhat stringy ; 

 flavor sweet, rich, sprightly ; quality fair to good ; stone 

 free, oborate, long-pointed, brown tinged with purple. 



YELLOW RARERIPE. Early Orange 

 Peach. Cutter's Yellow. A century ago Yel- 

 low Rareripe was at the head of the list of 

 yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches fruits larg- 

 est, handsomest, and best-flavored of all. Even 

 now in fruit- and tree-characters, with the 

 single exception of productiveness, Yellow 

 Rareripe holds its own very well with the 

 peaches of its type and -season. The chief 

 fault is unproductiveness, to make up for 

 which the trees usually bear regularly and 

 come in bearing early. The variety is now 

 hardly worth planting commercially, being 

 equalled in all characters by several yellow- 

 fleshed peaches and surpassed in productive- 

 ness by many; but, if the trees can be ob- 

 tained, the variety might find a welcome place 

 in home orchards. Yellow Rareripe originated 

 near Flushing, New York, over a hundred 

 years ago. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, rather un- 

 productive. Leaves 6% inches long, 1% wide, obovate- 

 lanceolate, leathery ; margin finely serrate and some- 

 times in two series ; teeth tipped with reddish-brown 

 glands ; petiole % inch long, glandless .or with 1-4 

 small, globose glands. t Flowers midseason, 1 inch across, 

 light pink but darker along the edges, usually single. 

 Fruit midseason ; 2 inches in diameter, wide, round- 

 conic, compressed, with unequal halves ; cavity con- 

 tracted and wrinkled about the sides, abrupt or flaring ; 

 suture shallow ; apex round, with a mucronate or 

 mamelon tip ; color orange-yellow, with a deep red 

 blush, splashed and mottled with red ; pubescence thick, 

 long, coarse ; skin thin, tender ; flesh yellow, tinged 

 with red near the pit, juicy, fine-grained, tender and 

 melting, sweet, pleasantly flavored ; good to very good 

 in quality ; stone free, ovate, bulged near the apex, 

 plump, tapering to a short point, with grooved and 

 pitted surfaces. 



