208 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Leaves sLx inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upward, oval to obovate- 

 lanceolate; upper surface dark green, smooth becoming slightly rugose along the midrib; 

 lower surface light grayish-green; margin sharply serrate, tipped with reddish-brown 

 glands; petiole seven-sixteenths inch long, glandless. 



Flower-buds conical or pointed, heavily pubescent, free; blossoms open very late; 

 flowers seven-eighths inch across, pale pink, the edges darker; pedicels short, glabrous, 

 green; calyx-tube reddish-green, yellow within, campanuJate; cahTC-lobes short, narrow, 

 acute or obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals roundish-oval, broadly notched, 

 tapering to short claws of medium width, sometimes stained with red at the base; filaments 

 three-eighths inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, longer than 

 the stamens. 



Fruit matures in early mid-season; two inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, 

 roundish to nearly oblate, somewhat oblique, with unequal halves; ca\-ity shallow, flaring, 

 with tender skin, often tinged with red; suture shallow, extending beyond the tip; apex 

 variable in shape, with mucronate or sometimes mamelon tip; color pale white or creamy- 

 Avhite, blushed and mottled with carmine; pubescence thin, short; skin tough, adherent 

 to the pulp until fully ripe; flesh white, rayed with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender 

 and melting, mild subacid; good in quality; stone nearly free, over one inch long, three- 

 fourths inch wide, oval, pltmip, flattened at the base, short-pointed at the apex, with 

 pitted surfaces marked by few grooves; ventral suture nan'ow, with furrows of medium 

 depth along the sides; dorsal suture deeply grooved. 



EDGEMONT 



I. Harrison & Sons Cat. i8. 1901. 



Edgemont Beauty. 2. Barnes Bros. Cat. 7. 1910. 3. Md. .Sta. Bui. 159:159. igii. 4. Stark 

 Bros. Cat. 35. 1913. 



In fruit Edgemont is not easily distinguished from Late Crawford, 

 the essential differences being that the fruits of Edgemont are more rotund 

 than those of Late Crawford and the flavor is a little more acid. The 

 trees differ, chiefly, in the greater productiveness of Edgemont and in 

 a little later maturity of the crop. Of the score or more peaches of the 

 Crawford type, in many respects the best of the several types of peaches, 

 Edgemont is distinctly superior to all on our grounds. Compared with 

 Elberta, with which it must compete in the markets, it is several days 

 later, is juicier, less fibrous, much excels that variety in quality and, 

 though the individual peaches are not quite as large, at Geneva the yield 

 of fruit is even greater. If Edgemont proves adapted to as wide a range 

 of climates and soils as Elberta, we shall have a new commercial peach 

 of very great value. Whether it succeeds in commerce or not, Edgemont 

 is well worth planting in home orchards by virtue of the exceptionally 

 high quality and attractive appearance of the fruit. 



