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has not yet come to light. In New York the best of the comparatively 

 new Crawford-like peaches is Niagara, said to be a seedling of one of the 

 Cra'w.-fords. The fruit ripens later than Early Crawford, averages larger, 

 is borne more abundantly and holds its size better to the end of the season. 

 - But Niagara's great point of merit, as compared with Crawford, is that it is 

 more dependable in all tree-characters, being, especially, less capricious 

 as to soil and climate. Niagara, as the color-plate shows it, is a beautiful 

 fruit, yellow, with a handsome over-color of red. The flesh, too, is 

 attractive and delectable — yellow, thick and firm, with a rich, sweet 

 flavor which makes it one of the most palatable peaches of its season. 

 It is, as are most of its type, a freestone. Niagara fails in productiveness 

 in some localities, having in this respect the fault of all its tribe; but it 

 should have a welcome place in any home collection and, where it proves 

 productive, is one of the best for general market. 



Niagara probably came originally from Maryland to Julius Harris, 

 Ridgeway, New York. Later it was sold to a grower near Lockport, New 

 York, who disposed of it to a Mr. Corwin, New^ane, Niagara County, New 

 York, who called it Corwin's Crawford. It then came into possession of the 

 Rogers Nurseries, Dansville, New York, from whom this Station received 

 its trees under the name Niagara. It is probably a seedling of Early 

 Crawford. Niagara was added to the fruit-list of the American Pomologi- 

 cal Society in 1909. 



Tree large, upright-spreading, hardy, medium in productiveness; trunk thick and 

 smooth; branches stock}-, smooth, reddish-brown mingled with light ash-gray; branchlets 

 thick, red intermingled with olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, 

 large, raised lenticels. 



Leaves six and three-fourths inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, flattened 

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

 rugose along the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; apex acuminate; margin finely 

 serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or 

 with one to five small, globose, raised, reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds large, long, conical or pointed, very plimip, pubescent, usually free; 

 blossoms open in mid-season; flowers one inch across, white near the center of the petals 

 changing to dark pink near the edges; pedicels very short, thick, glabrous, green; cal\Tc-tube 

 reddish-green, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; caljTC-lobes narrow, acute, 

 glabrous within, pubescent without; petals roimd-oval, tapering toward the apex, broadly 

 notched near the base, contracting to claws red at the base; filaments three-eighths inch 

 long, equal to or shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, longer than the 

 stamens. 



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



