25o THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



is a large handsomely-colored, white-fleshed, freestone peach of good 

 quality which ripens ten days before Champion. There are. it is true, a 

 good many white-fleshed peaches at this season but Pearson is an exception- 

 ally good one, much exceUing Mamie Ross with which it might have 

 to compete although the latter ripens a httle later. The trees are ver>' 

 vigorous, productive and. so far. about as healthy as any on the Station 



grounds. . 



Pearson originated with J. M. Pearson. McKinney. Texas. Its 

 parentage is unknown. The variety was introduced by E. W. Kirkpatnck 

 of McKinney. who thinks it may be a seedling of Chinese Chng. 



Tree large vigorous, spreading, the lower branches drooping, very productive; trunk 

 medium in thickness, smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown mingled with 

 light ash-gray; branchlets slender, short, with short intemodes, dark red mingled with 

 oiive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with few inconspicuous lenticels variable m size 



and raised toward the base . ui ■ •«.• , 



■ Leaves seven inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, vanable m position, 

 oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dark, dull green, smooth becoming 

 rugose along the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; apex long and narrow; margin finely 

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

 with one to four small, globose, reddish-brown glands usually at the base of the blade. 

 ' Flower-buds hardv, long, heavily pubescent, conical to obtuse, plump, appressed or 

 partly free; blossoms appear very early; flowers nearly two ii^ches across piric, usuaUy 

 single- pedicels short, of medium thickness, glabrous, green; calyx-tube dark, dull 

 reddish-green, greenish-yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, o ten 

 emarginated, acute or obtuse, glabrous within, heavily pubescent without; petals oval to 

 roundish-obovate, tapering to long, narrow claws; filaments about one-half inch long, 

 shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent only at the base, equal to the — ^ -^-f^- 

 Fruit matures in early mid-season; two and one-fourth mches long, two and three- 

 sixteenths inches wide, round-oval or somewhat cordate, compressed, with unequal halves^ 

 bulged near the apex; cavity medium to deep, abnipt or flanng, with tender skm; suture 

 ,ui e variable in depth; apex round or depressed, with a small, mucronate or recurved 

 mamelon tip; color greenish-white, with a blush covering much of the surface, more oi 

 ^mottled; pubescence thin, fine, short; skin thin, tough, semi-free; flesh white, faintly 

 tid with ;ed near the pit, juicy, string,-, tender and melting, pleasantly favored; ^^^ 

 k quality; stone semi-dinging or free, one and three-eighths mches long, one mch wid^ 

 ov^, flatt;ned at the base, winged, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture deeply grooved 

 near the edges, narrow; dorsal suture grooved, winged. 



PEENTO 



.. ,.A^..Pom.Soc.Rpt.,u 1877. .. Card. Man. r,:^.,, 30.. ^'-^l ^^ '^;'- '':^^- '^;^\'Zt 

 iu S D A. Rpi. 650. 1887. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1889. 6. Am. Pom.Soc. Rpt. 114 ..6. 

 tC iFa5/aB„^6.:506-509.Pl.i. ^902. S. Fulton PeacH Culi. 20.. 1908. 



