214 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Standing among commercial peaches in New York: Compared with that 

 of Champion, the fruit stands shipment much better and when brown-rot 

 is rife, does not suffer nearly as much. In selected locations, then, 

 when a mid-season, white-fleshed peach is wanted, this variety is worth 

 trying. 



Family Favorite is a seedhng of Chinese Cling, possibly crossed with 

 Oldmixon Free. It was raised by the late William H. Locke, Bonham, 

 Fannin County, Texas. The exact date of its origin is unknown. The 

 variety was named and introduced by T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas. 

 The American Pomological Society added Family Favorite to its list of 

 fruits in 1 909. 



Tree of medium size, spreading, inclined to droop, open-topped, productive; trunk 

 and branches intermediate in thickness; branches reddish-brown with a tinge of very 

 Hght ash-gray; branchlets rather short, with intemodes dark red intermingled with olive- 

 green, glossy, smooth, curving, with numerous medium to small, conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves folded upward, six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, ovate-lanceolate; 

 upper surface a dull, mottled, dark green mingled with olive-green, rugose along the mid- 

 rib; lower surface light grayish-green; margin finely serrate, often in two series, tipped 

 with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to four small, globose, 

 greenish-yellow glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds small, obtuse to pointed, very plump, heavily pubescent, appressed; 

 season of bloom early; flowers light pink at the center, darker pink along the edges, one 

 and one-eighth inches across; pedicels short, glabrous; calyx-tube reddish-green, cam- 

 {lanidate, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent within, heavily pubescent toward 

 the edges; petals oval to ovate, usually entire, tapering to narrow claws; filaments one- 

 half inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent at the base, longer than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; two and one-half inches long, two and three-eighths 

 inches wide, roundish-oval to strongly oval, bulged near the apex, compressed, with unequal 

 sides; cavity contracted, narrow, abrupt; suture a line, deepening toward the apex; apex 

 roundish, with a small, mucronate tip set in a depression; color creamy-white, with a few 

 splashes of red showing through a dull and mottled blush; pubescence short, thin; skin 

 thin, tough; flesh greenish-white, strongly stained with red at the pit, very juicy, tender 

 and melting, sweet or subacid, aromatic; good in quality; stone semi-free to free, tinged 

 with red, one and one-half inches long, one inch wide, flattened near the base, elliptical, 

 plump, winged on one side, with roughish and usually pitted surfaces; ventral suture deeply 

 furrowed along the sides, narrow; dorsal suture grooved, irregular. 



FITZGERALD 



I. Can. Hon. 18:417. 1895. 2. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 2:57. 1895. 3. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 

 ■235, 236. 1896. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 5. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:344. 'QOS- 

 6. Can. Hort. 27:195 fig. 1904. 7. Waugh .4m. Peach Orch. 196, 202. 1913. 



