1914 



FKU1TS OF ONTARIO. 



135 



REID. 



A round yellow-flesh peach, closely succeeding Elberta. 



TREE: healthy, vigorous, productive. 



FRUIT: medium to large in size; form, roundish ovate; color, yellow nearly covered 

 with red; suture, distinct; apex, depressed, prominent. 



FLESH: free; color, yellow marked with red at pit; texture, tender, juicy; flavor, 

 moderately sweet. 



QUALITY: cooking, good; dessert, fair. 



VALUE: market, second class. 



SEASON: late September. 



SALWAY. 



A popular late market variety, which usually ripens in the peach sections of Ontario 

 before frost. Hilborn says that in Essex it reaches maturity four years out of five. 



ORIGIN: England. 



TREE: vigorous; productive; fairly hardy. 



FRUIT: large; roundish, somewhat one-sided; skin, yellow with red cheeks on sunny 

 side; suture, broad. 



FLESH: free; color, yellow, red at the pit; texture, tender, juicy; flavor, sweet, good. 



QUALITY: good. 



VALUE: market, first class if well ripened. 



SEASON: mid-October. 



SMOCK. 



A first-class late market peach. 



ORIGIN: New Jersey. 



TBEE: moderately vigorous; wood brittle; leaves not subject to curl; productive. 



FRUIT: large; oval; color, yellow with orange-red cheek; bloom, heavy; cavity, nar- 

 now and deep; suture, obscure; apex, slightly extended. 



FLESH: free; color, yellow, with red at pit; texture, dry, tender; flavor, agreeable, 

 not sweet, distinctive. 



QUALITY: cooking or drying, good. 



VALUE: market, first class for its season. 



SEASON: early October. 



SMOCK. 



