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tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole one-half inch long, glandless or with one to six 

 reniform, reddish-brown glands of medium size, variable in position. 



Flower-buds hardy, usually obtuse, sometimes conical, plump, very pubescent free- 

 blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pale pinkish, darker pink near the margins well 

 distnbuted; pedicels short, medium to thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube dull, dark reddish- 

 green, orange-red within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, narrow, usually acute 

 glabrous within and without; petals oval, often broadly notched near the base taperin- 

 to long, narrow claws occasionally tinged with red at the base; filaments three-eighths 

 mch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent at the ovary, equal to or longer 

 than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season ; two and seven-eighths inches long, two and five-sixteenths 

 inches wide, irregular, roundish-oval, bulged at one side, considerably comprassed with 

 unequal sides; cavity medium to deep, abrupt, with tender skin; suture shallow, deepening 

 toward the tip; apex elongated; color greenish-yellow changing to orange-yellow with 

 stripes and splashes and mottlings of deeper red; pubescence thick, long; skin thin tou-h 

 separates from the pulp; flesh deep yellow, stained with red near the pit, juicy, 'slighU^- 

 s-tringy. tender, sweet, very pleasantly flavored, sprightly; good to very good in'qualit>'- 

 stone free, one and three-eighths inches long, one inch wide, ovate, plump, bulged at one 

 side, the surfaces grooved; ventral suture narrow, winged, deeply grooved near the edges; 

 dorsal suture grooved. 



KALAMAZOO 



1. Muh. Hon. Soc.Rpt. 27, 2S,,<)2. ,893. 2. //„</. ,43. .894. i- Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. ^^ ,899 

 4. Mick. .Sla. Bui. 169:217. .899. 5- Budd-Hansen .Am. Hort. Man. 2:348. ,903. 6. Mich Sla 

 Sp. Bui. 44:49 fig., 50. 1910. 7. Waugh .Un. Peach Orch. 203. 1913. 



Before peach-growers had Elberta, Kalamazoo was a promising yellow- 

 fleshed, freestone variety. The fruit is better in quality than Elberta but 

 not as showy in appearance and the trees are not quite as productive. 

 Kalamazoo ripens with Late Crawford and could well compete with that 

 variety for the trees are hardier in wood and bud and are much more 

 productive. The variety falls short, however, in the size of the peaches, 

 these running no larger than a medium Late Crawford, though possibly this 

 defect could be remedied by thinning. The fruits are of highest quality 

 either for dessert or culinary purposes. The trees are susceptible to leaf- 

 curl and must be thoroughly sprayed for this fungus. The variety is grown 

 rather extensively in iMichigan and is well known in parts of New York. 



Kalamazoo originated with J. N. Stearns, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 

 about 1869, as a sprout from below the bud on a Yellow Alberge tree.' 

 It first fruited in 1871 and was exhibited that year at the Michigan State 

 Fair where it received a premium as the best seedling peach. The 

 American Pomological Society placed Kalamazoo in its fruit-list in 1899 

 where it still remains. 



