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Tree large, spreading, vigorous, open-topped, very productive; trunk meaumi in 

 thickness and smoothness; branches stocky, nearly smooth, reddish-brown mingled with 

 light ash-gray; branchlets long, with intemodes of medium length, dark pinkish-red with 

 a small amount of olive-green, smooth, glabrous, with lenticels of medium number and 

 size. 



Leaves six and one-half inches long, one and three-eighths inches wide, nearly flat 

 or curled downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dark olive-green, 

 smooth ; lower surface grayish-green ; apex narrow-acuminate ; margin fineh* serrate, tipped 

 ■with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to six small, reniform, 

 reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds hardy, conical, somewhat pointed, pubescent, partly appressed ; blossoms 

 appear in mid-season; flowers pale pink, white at the center of the petals, one and one- 

 eighth inches across ; pedicels short, mediiim to slender, glabrous, green ; calyx-tube reddish- 

 green, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes medium to narrow. 

 acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals oval to somewhat ovate, irregular in 

 outline near the base, tapering to narrow claws occasionally reddish at the base" filaments 

 one-half inch long; pistil pubescent at the base, equal to or shorter than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit matures late; two and three-eighths inches long, two and seven-sixteenths 

 inches wide, roundish-oval, often compressed, with imequal sides; cavity rather wide, 

 flaring to abrupt ; suture indistinct becoming more pronounced toward the tip ; apex ending 

 in a small, elongated point; color greenish-yellow becoming yellow, with a faint or distinct 

 blush usually extending over one-fourth of the surface, mottled; pubescence thick, fine; 

 skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp; flesh light yellow, stained with red near the 

 pit, juicy, tender, sweet, mild; good in quality; stone free or nearly so, one and one-half 

 inches long, one and one-sixteenths inches wide, oval to ovate, bulged on one side, winged 

 near the base, the surfaces pitted and grooved near the apex; ventral suture very deeply 

 grooved at the sides, medium in width; dorsal suture winged, grooved deeply. 



LAMONT 



I. Corne// 5/0. Sh/. 74:372. 1894. 2. N. Y. Slate Fr.Gr. Assoc. Rpl. H4. 1910. 3. Ihid. 21. 1912. 

 4. Van Dusen Nur. Cat. 21. 1913. 



Though long grown in parts of western New York, Lamont has not 

 been sufficiently well tested by the peach-growers of the State. It is a 

 yellow-fleshed, freestone peach, much like Early Crawford in appearance 

 and quality, which ripens from one to two weeks after Elberta. It is 

 more productive than either of the Crawfords and if it does as well else- 

 where as about Geneva, the place of its origin, it ought to take high place 

 in the list of commercial peaches for this State. Several large growers 

 in this region speak well of it as a market fruit. As a garden variety for 

 its season, it can hardly be surpassed. 



The original Lamont tree grew as a chance seedling on the grounds 



