^-, THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



inchec wide, round-cordate to oval, compressed, with equal halves; cavity medium to 

 deep flaring to abrupt, with very tender skin, often splashed with red; suture shallow, 

 deepening toward the apex and often extending beyond; apex rounded or pomted, w,th 

 a mamelon and sometimes recurved tip; color orange-yellow, blushed with deep, dull red, 

 with stripes and splashes of darker red; pubescence short, thick, fine; skm thick, tough, 

 adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, deeply tinged with red near the pit, juicy, coarse but 

 tender, sprightlv; very good in quality; stone free, one and five-eighths inches long, one 

 and one-eighth inches wide, broadly ovate, plump, with long point at the apex, usually 

 with grooved surfaces and with few pits, tinged with red; ventral suture very deeply 

 grooved along the sides, winged, rather wide; dorsal suture deeply grooved, wmg-like. 



OLDMIXON CLING 



I Coxe Cult. Fr. Tre.s 2,8. .8,7. 2. Kennck Am. Onh. 33.. kS.,^- 3- Prince Pom. Man. 

 2:2^. 1832. 4. Downing i^.. r.... .4,n. 497. .845. S- Am. Pom. .Soc. Rp,. 2... .856. 6. Fulton 

 Peach Cull. 198. 1908. 7- Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 205. 1913- 



Oldmixon. 8. Hoflfy Orch. Com. 1:1841-42. 9- Elliott Fr. Book 27H. 1854. 



Without question one of the oldest American peaches, going back 

 at least 150 years, Oldmixon Cling is still well worthy a place m every 

 orchard where high quality is a prime requisite. It is a rich, luscious, white- 

 fleshed peach, ripening late, which, besides being excellent m quality for 

 dessert and cuHnary purposes, is uncommonly handsome - a combma- 

 tion of characters possessed by few other peaches. The color-plate is 

 almost a perfect picture of the variety and could the flavor be as well con- 

 veyed to readers, Oldmixon Cling might again take on some of its one. 

 time popularity. We can discover but one fault in the fruits as they 

 grow on the Station grounds - the pits crack badly. The vanety, how- 

 ever, seems to be passing out because the trees are not, as a rule, frtutftil 

 though in all other respects they are seemingly near perfection. 



There is no trace of when, where or how Oldmixon CUng ongmated. 

 Coxe ^ first set forth its merits in 1817. It is reported to have been mtro- 



'T;;:;;r^~;ublished m 18,7 by Wmiam Coxe, is the first American pomology. Th-^l: -""^;; 

 by an amateur during most of his Ufe a merchant, his work was done with so much care and exh.b.ts such 

 n ce r;! tion in selecting, descnbing and discussing varieties of f^its that until the later and more 

 rilete work of Andrew Jackson Downing and Charles Downing. Coxe's Frml Trees, compet.ng w,th 

 Lver oth r manuals, was the standard pomological work of America. Wilham Coxe was bom m 

 Pirdelhi;, May 3. : 6. and died near Burlington, New Jersey, February 25 .83. He seems oh^ve 

 inherited wealth and with it scholarly habits and such refinement and charm of personahty t^aUn ^h'^ 

 delphia and later in Burlington, to which place he removed in early manhood, he was one of the ^eade^ 



nteraryscientificandsocialcircles. His tastes early led him to the cultivation of fru.^a^^^^^^^^^^ 

 grow the varieties then to be had in America and to import sorts from England and F— ^ ^^^ °^ 

 f8,7 he was able to say that he had been " for many years actively engaged >n the reanng plant ng and 

 It va ilg fiit trees on a scale more extensive than has been attempted by any other -^'-dual .n^^ 



Wn- " Previous to this for some years, how long cannot be said, he was the moneyed partner w.th 



