238 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



of Charles Lament, Geneva, New York, first fruiting about 1S84. It 

 was introduced by E. Smith and Sons, Geneva, New York, soon after its 

 discovery. The variety is offered by several Geneva nurserymen. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, productive; trunk thick, nearly smooth; 

 branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown with light ash-gray; branchlets with internodes 

 of medium length, dark pinkish-red intermingled with green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, 

 with inconspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves seven inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide, folded upward and curled 

 downward slightly, oval to obovate-lanceolate. thick, leathery; upper surface dark olive- 

 green, smooth; lower surface grayish-green; apex acuminate; margin finely and sharply 

 serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands ; petiole one-half inch long, with one to six reni- 

 form, dark brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds tender, large, long, conical or pointed, pubescent, free; blossoms appear 

 in mid-season; flowers thirteen-sixteenths inch across, white at the center of the petals 

 becoming dark pink near the edges; pedicels short, green; calyx-tube reddish-green at 

 the base, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, medium to broad, obtuse, glabrous within, 

 heavily pubescent without; petals roundish-oval, somewhat irregular in outline near the 

 base, tapering to long, narrow claws occasionally with a red base; filaments three-eighths 

 inch long, equal to the petals in length ; pistil pubescent near the base, as long as the stamens. 



Fruit matures late ; about two and seven-eighths inches in diameter, roundish-cordate, 

 compressed, with unequal sides; cavity deep, usually abrupt; suture indistinct, becoming 

 deeper near the tip; apex roundish or pointed, usually with a noticeable mamelon or 

 sometimes mucronate tip; color golden-yellow, blushed and faintly striped and splashed 

 with carmine; pubescence heavy, long, coarse; skin thick, tough, adherent to the pulp; 

 flesh light yellow, stained with red near the pit, juicy, coarse, tender, pleasantly sprightly ; 

 good in quality; stone free, one and five-eighths inches long, one and one-eighth inches 

 wide, oval to obovate, flattened near the base, often bulged at the apex, winged, with 

 grooved surfaces; ventral suture deeply marked along the edges, narrow, winged; dorsal 

 suture grooved, the sides wing-like. 



LARGE YORK 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1897. 2. ///. Horl. Soc. Rpt. 26. 1899. 



New York Rareripe. 3. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 220. 1817. 4. Elliott Fr. Book 277. 1854. 

 Large Early York. 5. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 16. 1820. 6. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 39, 51. 1848. 

 7. Cole Am. Fr. Book 192. 1849. 8. Cultivator 6:308 fig. 1849. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 44. 1856. 

 10. Elliott Fr. Book 288. 1859. 11. Horticulturist 16:245. 1861. 12. Card. Mon. 5:13. 1S63. 

 13. Downing Fr. Trees ^m. 619. 1869. 14. Fulton PeacA C«//. 185, 186. 1908. 

 Large Early Rareripe. 15. Prince Pom. Man. 2:25. 1832. 



Large York long ago lost all value for either home or commercial 

 plantings but it is still listed in a few nursery catalogs and is still in the 

 fruit-list of the American Pomological Society. It is one of the old 

 American sorts and has been much confounded with several other peaches. 

 We place it among the major varieties in The Peaches of New York chiefly 



