252 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



of John Muir, near Silveyville, California. G. W. Thissell, Winters, 

 California, named . and introduced Muir. The American Pomological 

 Society added this peach to its fruit-list in 1899. 



Tree vigorous, upright or somewhat spreading, hardy, productive; trunk rough; 

 branches smooth, ash-gray over reddish-brown; branchlets slender, long, with short inter- 

 nodes, dark pinkish-red with but a trace of green, smooth, glabrous, with inconspicuous, 

 small, raised lenticels. 



Leaves fall early in the season, si.\ and three-fourths inches long, one and three- 

 eighths inches wide, flat or somewhat curled downward, oval-lanceolate, leathery; upper 

 surface dull, dark green, nearly smooth; lower surface olive-green; apex acuminate; margin 

 bluntly serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole seven-sixteenths inch long, 

 with one to five large, reniform glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds small, short, obtuse, very plump, heavily pubescent, appressed; blossoms 

 open late; flowers seven-eighths inch across; pale pink, darker about the edges, usually 

 singly; pedicels short, green; cah-x-tube reddish-green, orange-red within, campanulate, 

 glabrous; calyx-lobes short, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals narrow- 

 oval or ovate, tapering to claws of medium width ; filaments three-eighths inch long, equal 

 to the petals in length ; pistil as long as the stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season ; two and three-fourths inches long, two and three-eighths 

 inches wide, roundish-cordate or oval, slightly angular, compressed, with imequal halves; 

 cavity shallow, contracted about the sides, abrupt or flaring; suture medium in depth; 

 apex pointed, with a large, recurved, mamelon tip; color greenish or lemon-yellow, with 

 little if any blush; pubescence heav\% long; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp 

 when fully ripe; flesh yellow, faintly tinged with red near the pit, dry, coarse, tender, 

 sweet, mild; good in quality; stone free, one and seven-sixteenths inches long, fifteen- 

 sixteenths inch wide, ovate, flattened, wedge-shape toward the base, tapering to a long 

 apex, with large pits and a few small grooves in the surfaces; ventral suture deeply 

 grooved along the sides, very wide, deeply furrowed; dorsal suture widely and deeply 

 grooved . 



NIAGARA 



I. W. \. Y. Horl. Sor. Rpl. 115. 1900. 2. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:352, 353. 1903. 

 3. W. y. V. Horl. Soc. Rpl. 24. 1904. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 5. .V. Y. Sta. Bui. 403:213^ 

 214, PI. 1915. 



Newark Seedling. 6. Del. Sta. Rpt. 5:99. 1892. 



Niagara is a variant of a peach which all growers lament as being less 

 and less grown, the Crawford. The Crawford group, though a dominant, 

 type, is, as we have several times pointed out, a little too capricious as to 

 soil and climate to suit the needs of commercial peach-growers, failing^ 

 to bear regularly or abundantly in most soils. For this reason the once 

 very popular Early and Late Crawfords are now seldom grown. All who 

 know these varieties regret that a sort of their type, without their faults. 



