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Leaves four and three-fourths inches long, one and one-fourth inches wide, folded 

 upward, oval-lanceolate with tendency to obovate, thin; upper surface when young 

 purplish-red but changing to green, smooth or rugose; lower surface purplish-olive; margin 

 finely serrate, tipped with small, dark glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with two 

 to five small, reniform, greenish-yellow, red-tipped glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds large, oblong-conic, plump, pubescent, appressed; blossoms appear in 

 mid-season; flowers one and one-half inches across, pale pink, occasionally in twos; pedicels 

 nearly sessile, glabrous, greenish; calj-x-tube dark, dull red mingled with green, yellownsh 

 within, campanulate, glabrous; calj-x-lobes long, narrow, acute, glabrous within. sUghtly 

 pubescent to heavily pubescent without; petals oval. sUghtly contracted toward the apex, 

 tapering to short claws; filaments three-eighths inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil 

 equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures very late; one and five-eighths inches long, nearly one and five-eighths 

 inches wide, roundish-oval, shghtly compressed, with unequal sides, with prominent bulge 

 near the apex; ca\'ity deep, narrow, abrupt, contracted about the sides, marked with 

 narrow, radiating stripes of pale red; suture very shallow, becoming deeper toward the 

 apex; apex roundish or slightly depressed, with a small, mucronate or recurved, mamelon 

 tip; color greenish-white and pale yellow\ lightly washed with dull pink which changes 

 to dull brown, in some cases deepening to a reddish blush; pubescence thick, short, fine; 

 skin thin, tender, adherent to the pulp; flesh white to the pit, juicy, coarse, meaty but 

 tender, sweetish, with some astringency; p)oor in quality; stone clinging, over one inch 

 long, three-fourths inch wide, oval, ver\' plump, tapering to a short, blunt point at the 

 apex, with grooved surfaces; ventral suture lightly furrowed along the sides, rather wide; 

 dorsal suture with narrow groove, slightly winged. 



BRIGDON 



I. Am. Card. 11:244, 378- 1890. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1899. 3. Budd-Hansen Am. Horl. 

 Af an. 2:340. 1903. 4. Waugh .4m. Peach Orch. igg. 1913. 

 Garfield. 5. Can. Hort. 26:441, fig. 2665. 1903. 



Brigdon is a local variety which possibly local pride puts too much 

 in evidence in assigning it a place among the major varieties in The Peaches 

 of Neiv York. Still, it belongs with the Crawfords, aristocrats among 

 peaches, and this is enough to give it standing in a home collection at 

 least. In tree and fruit it is similar to and a worthy rival of Early Craw- 

 ford and has the same two fatal fatalts to bar it from commercial planta- 

 tions — the trees are capricious as to soils and are often unproductive. 

 On the other hand, a character of the tree to commend it to the amateur 

 is that it is one of the least susceptible of all peach-trees to leaf-curl. The 

 variety is well known only in western New York and is going out in this 

 region. 



Brigdon originated more than a quarter-centun- ago in Cayuga County, 

 New York, and has been grown since more or less extensively on the shores 



