THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 2~,i) 



faults that will not peniiit Pallas ever to become a commercial sort in New 

 "\'cirk. Moreover, the peaches are not attractive in appearance, suffer 

 terribly from brown-rot and do not ship well — fin-ther disqualifications 

 for competition in commerce. In quality, especially, to those who have 

 a taste for sweets, Pallas is almost unapproachable — so rich, sweet, 

 aromatic and delicious as well to justify the sobriquet, " Honeydew," 

 frequently bestowed upon it. This variety might well be planted in ever\- 

 home orchard. 



Pallas is one of the many seedlings of Honey and originated in 1878 

 with L. E. Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia. In 1891 the American Pomolog- 

 ical Society added Pallas to its list of fruits as a noteworthy variety for 

 southern fruit-districts. 



Tree mediiim in vigor, upright-spreading, roimd-topped, productive; trunk rough; 

 branches roughened by the lenticels, brownish intermingled wth ash-gray and a little 

 red; branchlets slender, with intemodes of medium length, dark pinkish-red mingled 

 with green, smooth, glabrous, with numerous conspicuous, small, raised, russet-colored 

 lenticels. 



Leaves fall late in the season, six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, variable 

 in position, ovate-lanceolate, thin, leathery; upper surface dull, dark green, smooth; lower 

 surface olive-green; margin sharply and often doubly serrate, glandular; petiole three- 

 eighths inch long, stout, glandless or with one to three small, globose glands usually at 

 the base of the leaf. 



Flower-buds large, long, conical, plump, pubescent, conspicuous, usually free; flowers, 

 appear in mid-season, light pink changing to darker red; pedicels thick, glabrous, green; 

 cal>"x-tube red, yeUowish-green within, obconic, glabrous; caljTC-lobes obtuse, glabrous 

 within, heavily pubescent without; petals oval, entire, red at the base; filaments shorter 

 than the petals; pistil pubescent, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in early mid-season; two and one-fourth inches long, two inches wide, 

 pointed-oval, compressed, with halves equal; cavity shallow, flaring, with tender skin; 

 suture shallow; apex a characteristically long, straight tip; color pale white or greenish- 

 white occasionally with a bright red blush but mostly with dull mottlings; pubescence 

 medium in amount; skin thick, tough; flesh white, scarcely stained at the pit, very juicy, 

 sweet, tender and melting, high-flavored; very good in quality; stone free, one and five- 

 sixteenths inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval to ovate, sUghtly wedge-shaped at 

 the base, plump, conspicuously winged, long-pointed, with pitted and grooved surfaces; 

 ventral suture narrow, furrowed; dorsal suture grooved. 



PEARSON 



I. Del. Stc. Rpl. 13:105. 1901. 2. .V. Y. State Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 21. 1912. 



Pearson is a newcomer among peaches which will bear watching if 

 it does as well in other parts of New York as on the Station grounds. It 



