250 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Leaves six and three-fourths inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, flat or 

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

 smooth; lower surface gra\'ish-green; apex long, acuminate; margin finely serrate, tipped 

 with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to five small, globose 

 and reniform glands variable in color and position. 



Flow^er-buds tender, obtuse to conical, plump, very pubescent, usually free; blossoms 

 appear in mid-season; flowers less than an inch across, pale pink, deepening in color along 

 the edges; pedicels short, thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube greenish-red, greenish-yellow 

 within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, glabrous within, pubescent without; 

 petals oval, narrow; filaments three-eighths inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil 

 longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures late; two and one-sixteenth inches long, two and one-eighth inches 

 wide, cordate-oval or oblate, compressed, with halves nearly equal; cavity abrupt or 

 flaring; suture a line, becoming deeper toward the tip; apex roundish, depressed in the 

 suture, with mucronate tip; color pale white, usually without blush or with a faint bronze 

 blush; pubescence heavy, long and coarse; skin thin, tough, somewhat adherent; flesh 

 white, juicy, tender and melting, sweet, pleasantlj- flavored; good in quality; stone semi- 

 free to nearly free, one and one-fourth inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval to 

 slightly obovate, flattened near the base, with deeply grooved surfaces' ventral suture 

 with deep grooves along the edges, furrowed; dorsal suture grooved. 



MOUNTAIN ROSE 



I. Tilton Jour. Horl. 7:339 fig. 1870. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 18. 1871. 3. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 1st App. 121. 1872. 4. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 33, 261. 1874. 5. A'. /. Horl. .Soc. Rpt. 41. 1878. 

 6. Ga. Sla. Bui. 42:239. 1898. 7. Midi. Sla. Bui. 169:220. 1899. 8. Budd-Hansen Am. Horl. Man. 

 2:352. 1903. 9. Fulton Peach Cult. 174. 1908. 



For many years Mountain Rose was preeminent among white-fleshed, 

 freestone peaches by virtue of high quality and handsome appearance. 

 It has a distinct and curious but dehcious flavor — a sort of scented sweet- 

 ness that appeals to all who appreciate choicely good fruit. Unfortunately, 

 it fails in the chief requirement for popularity in these days of commercial 

 fruit-growing — the trees are unproductive, a fault so marked that the 

 variety is rapidly passing from cultivation. Mountain Rose sells well 

 in all markets where it is known, usually bringing a fancy price because of 

 its extra good quality and because it follows closely after the dozen or 

 more white-fleshed, clingstones of poorer quality. 



The variety originated about 1851 on the farm of a Dr. Marvin, 

 Alorristown, New Jersey. Of its parentage nothing is known. Mountain 

 Rose has always been considered a good market variety and has been widely 

 disseminated. The American Pomological Society added this peach to 

 its fruit-list in 1871, a place it has since held. 



