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inches wide, round or roundish-oval, compressed, with halves equal; cavity deep, medium 

 to wide, contracted around the sides, abrupt or flaring, often mottled with red; suture 

 medium to deep, extending beyond the tip; apex mucronate, mamelon; color greenish- white 

 changing to creamy-white, with a dull or lively red blush in which are intermingled a few 

 splashes of duller red; pubescence coarse, long, thick; skin thick, tough, clings to the pulp; 

 flesh white, stained with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender, sweet but sprightly, 

 pleasantly flavored; good in quality; stone clinging, one and five-sixteenths inches long, 

 one inch wide, bulged on one side, broadly oval to ovate, flattened, short-pointed at the 

 apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture winged, narrow, deeply grooved along the 

 edges; dorsal suture grooved. 



GEORGE IV 



I. MasLe Kerger 7:49, 50, fig. 23. 1866-73. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6: I2g tig. 1879. 3. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat. 37. 1909. 4. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 202. 1913. 



George the Fourth. 5. Lond. Horl. Soc. Rpt. 6:413. 1826. 6. Pom. Mag. 3:105, PI. 1830. 

 V. Prince Pom. Afon. 1:192, 193. 1831. 8. Downing fr. Trees /I w. 478. 1845. g. Mag. Horl. ly. 120, 

 121, 122. 1847. 10. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 38, 51. 1848. 11. Carriere Var. Pechers 70. 1867. 

 12. Hogg Fruit Man. 447. 1884. 13. Budd-Han.sen Am. Hort. Man. 2:346. 1903. 



Once one of the mainstays of American peach-growing. George IV 

 is now of but historical interest. This variety was one of the first named 

 American peaches and had the honor of being placed on the recommended 

 list of fruits at the first meeting of the National Convention of Fruit- 

 Growers, an organization which became the American Pomological Society, 

 in 1848. George IV is not worth planting now and is illustrated and 

 described in The Peaches of New York only that fruit-growers may note 

 progress in the development of peaches. It is interesting to note that this 

 old American peach is still widely grown in Europe. 



George IV has been confused with several other sorts, particularly 

 Morris Red. Prince, in the Magazine of Horticulture, writes that Morris 

 Red is an old Red Rareripe brought to America from Europe by Huguenot 

 emigrants and that George IV came from buds of the original tree of this 

 variety. The consensus of opinion, however, among those who early 

 knew both peaches, is that Morris Red and George IV are distinct and that 

 both are of American origin. George IV, the best authorities say, sprang 

 up as a chance seedling, about 1821, in the garden of a Mr. Gill, Broad 

 Street, New York City. After fruiting, the variety rapidly grew in favor 

 and within a few years was everywhere grown in eastern America. Taken 

 to Europe, it soon became one of the standard European peaches. From 

 the first it was on the list in the American Pomological Society's fruit- 

 catalog but was dropped in 1897 to be replaced in 1909. We doubt if it 

 now deserves to be recommended on any list of fruits. 



