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mth light ash-gray; branchlets thick, variable in length, with medium to long internodes, 

 deep, dark red intermingled with green, glossy, roughened by the lenticels, glabrous, 

 with a few smallish, inconspicuous lenticels which are raised toward the base. 



Leaves seven and one-fourth inches long, nearly two inches wide, variable in position, 

 oval to obovate-lanceolate, medium in thickness, leathery, dark olive-green, smooth, 

 becoming rugose toward the midrib; margin sharply serrate; petiole three-eighths inch 

 long, glandless or with one to three small, globose, alternate glands variable in color and 

 in their position; flower-buds intermediate in size and length, conical or pointed, pliunp, 

 free; blossoms appear in mid-season ; flowers small. 



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

 half inches wide, roundish-cordate, compressed, with halves nearly equal; cavity wide, 

 deep, flaring or abrupt; suture shallow; apex roundish, with a mucronate or mamelon 

 tip; color deep golden-yellow, splashed, blushed and mottled with red; pubescence heavy; 

 skin thick, tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh rayed with red near the pit, yellow, juic^-, 

 firm but tender, sweet, pleasantly flavored; good in quality; stone free, one and one-half 

 inches long, one inch wide, ovate, more or less bulged at one side and drawn out near the 

 base, plump, rather long-pointed, with short grooves and pits in the surfaces; ventral 

 suture winged, medium in thickness, deeply grooved and furrowed along the edges; dorsal 

 suture a narrow groove, winged. 



REEVES 



I. Tex. Sla. Bui. 39:814. 1896. 2. Mich. Sla. Bui. 169:224. 1899. 3- Budd-Hansen Am. Ilnrt. 

 Man. 2:354. 1903- 4- Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1909. 



Reeves' Favorite. 5. Elliott Fr. Book 288. 1854. 6. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 633. 1857. 7. .\m. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 30. 1875. 8. Fulton Peach Cult. 193. 1908. 



Reeves' Late. 9. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 458. 1883. 



Reeves is another of the old favorites now rapidly passing out of 

 ctiltivation. In its day it was justly celebrated for the high quality of its 

 yellow-fleshed, freestone fruits which are as handsome as they are palatable. 

 The peaches have but two minor defects to keep them from perfection — 

 they are a little too irregular in shape and sometimes fall short in size. 

 In texture of flesh, juiciness, taste and aroma they are scarcelj^ surpassed. 

 The fault that condemns the variety is unproductiveness in the trees. 

 Under average conditions, Reeves is scarcely as productive as the Crawfords 

 which are rated by all as about the poorest bearers. Making up in some 

 degree for un fruit fulness, the trees are vigorous and more than usually 

 hardy. It can hardly be expected that so poor a bearer will prove profit- 

 able in commercial plantations but Reeves is worthy of perpetuation for 

 home orchards. 



This attractive peach came from a chance seedling found about sixty 

 years ago by Samuel Reeves, Salem, New Jersey. The variety has for 

 many years gone under the name Reeves' Favorite and was so listed in 



