THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 21 7 



GENERAL LEE 



I. Card. Mon. 29:271. 1887. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 30. 1889. 3. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. 

 Man. 2:346. 1903. 



R. E. Lee. 4. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 21. 1877. 5. Card. Mon. 27:275. 1885. 6. Ga. Sta. Bui. 

 42:240. 1898. 



Lee. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1897. 8. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:104. 1901. 9. Budd-Hansen .ini. 

 Hort. Man. 2:349. 1903. 



General Lee is a white-fleshed clingstone, the fruit none too attractive 

 and strrpassed by that of other varieties of its season in quality. It is 

 without value in the North. Southern growers say General Lee is an 

 improved Chinese Chng and as such well worth growing under some con- 

 ditions. It has the reputation of being quite susceptible to brown-rot. 

 The variety is offered by a good many nurserymen and we discuss it only 

 to condemn it for planting in New York. The variety, as its history 

 shows, really belongs to eastern Asia and thus arouses interest. 



General Lee originated with Judge Campbell, Pensacola, Florida, 

 from pits brought from Japan in i860. In 1864 P. J. Berckmans received 

 buds from R. R. Hvmley of Alabama and in 1867 introduced the sort under 

 the name General Lee. The American Pomological Society listed this 

 peach in 1889 as General Lee but in 1897 shortened the name to Lee and 

 so it appears in the Society's catalog at the present time. We prefer the 

 old name since when shortened it loses all significance as a commemorative 

 appellation. 



Tree very large, vigorous, spreading, unproductive; trunk thick, rough; branches 

 reddish-brown tinged with light ash-gray; branchlets slender, wth intemodes dark red 

 mingled with considerable green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with numerous inconspicuous, 

 raised lenticels variable in size. 



Leaves six and one-foxirth inches long, one and one-half inches wide, flat or folded 

 downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thick, leathery; upper surface dark, dull green, 

 smooth; lower surface grayish-green; apex acimiinate; margin coarsely serrate, tipped 

 with reddish-brown glands; petiole nearly one-half inch long, with one to four large, 

 renifomi, reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds somewhat tender, large, conspicuous, very plump, conical to obtuse, 

 strongly pubescent, appressed or slightly free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers 

 one and thirteen-sixteenths inches across, pink, well distributed; pedicels short, glabrous, 

 green; calyx- tube reddish-green at the base, greenish-yellow within, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals narrow-oval, 

 tapering to short, broad claws occasionally with reddish base; filaments seven-sixteenths 

 inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent near the base, longer than the stamens. 



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



