THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 2O9 



Edgemont, shortened from Edgemont Beauty, in accordance with the 

 rules of the American Pomological Society, is of rather recent origin, having 

 been introduced by the MUler Orchard Company, Edgemont, Maryland, 

 in 1902. 



Tree large, \ngorous. upright-spreading, productive; trunk stock}', smooth; branches 

 thick, smooth; branchlets medium in thickness, piuphsh-red mingled wth brown. 



Leaves large, obovate. medium in thickness; upper surface yellowish-green, some- 

 what wrinkled; margin crenate; glands globose. 



Flower-buds half-hard^-, medium in size; flowers appear in mid-season, small, dark 

 pink, well distributed, single; pedicels short, somewhat slender; petals ovate, entire; 

 filaments long, sometimes longer than the petals. 



Fruit matures in late mid-season; large, irregular, roundish-ovate, truncate at the 

 base, with unequal halves; ca\dty rather deep, medium to narrow, regular, abrupt; suture 

 shallow; apex mucronate; color light yellow or orange-yellow, with a bronze blush often 

 deepening to an attractive carmine blush; pubescence short, medium in thickness; sldn 

 thick, somewhat tough, separates from the pulp; flesh yellow, stained red at the pit, very 

 juicy, slightly coarse and string^-, meaty, mild subacid or sprighlty; very good in quality; 

 stone free, large, oval, plump, pointed, with corrugated surfaces. 



ELBERTA 



1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 66. 1881. 2. .4m. Gard. 9:391 fig. 1888. 3. Can. Hort. 11:281, 282. 1888. 

 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 30. 1889. 5. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 382, PI. i. 1891. 6. Can. Hort. 17:305, PI. 

 1894. 7. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 272, 273. 1896. 8. Tex. Sla. Bui. 39:807 fig. 1896. 9. Can. Hort. 

 23:i3l. 132. fig- 1769- 1900- 10- /'«•'■ Sta. Rpt. 13:97 fig- 98. 1900. 11. Rural N. Y. 60:54. J90l- 

 12. Budd- Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:343, 344 fig. 1903. 



Elberta leads all other peaches in number of trees in New York and 

 in America. It is, too, the most popular of all peaches in the markets. 

 A study of the variet\', though it reveals some shortcomings, justifies its 

 popularity with orchardists and marketmen. The preeminently meritorious 

 character of Elberta is its freedom from local prejudices of either soil or 

 chmate — it is the cosmopolite of cultivated peaches. Thus, Elberta is 

 grown with profit in ever\- peach-growing state in the Union and in nearly 

 all, if not aU, is grown in greater quantities than any other market peach. 

 The second character which commends Elberta to those in the business 

 of peach-growing is fruitfulness — barring frosts or freezes the trees load 

 themselves with frtiit year in and year out. Added to these two great 

 points of superiority are ability to withstand, in fair measure at least, 

 the ravages of both insects and fungi, large size, vigor, early bearing and 

 longevity in tree, and large, handsome, well-flavored fruits which ship 

 and keep remarkably well. 



