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Leaf-buds semi-hardy, small, short, variable in shape, plimip, appressed or sHghtly 

 free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers one and five-eighths inches across, white, 

 sometimes in twos; pedicels short, thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube tinged with green, 

 yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; cal>-x-lobes variable in length, medium to narrow, 

 acute, glabrous within, pubescent \vithout; petals often pointed at the apex, round-ovate, 

 broadly notched at the base, tapering to broad, short claws; filaments seven-six- 

 teenths inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent near the base, as long as the 

 stamens. 



Fruit matures late; two and three-eighths inches long, two and five-sixteenths inches 

 wide, round-cordate, somewhat angular, bulged at one side, compressed, with imequal 

 sides; cavity deep, narrow, abrupt, contracted about the sides, twig-marked; suture 

 shallow, becoming deeper toward the tip; apex roundish or depressed, with a mucronate 

 or sometimes a small, mamelon tip; color greenish-white changing to creamy- white, 

 without blush; pubescence long, thick, coarse; skin thin, tender, adherent to the pulp; 

 flesh white to the pit, juicy, meaty, mildly sweet to sprightly; fair in quality; stone firmly 

 clinging, one and nine-sixteenths inches long, one and one-eighth inches wide, broad-oval, 

 often bulged near the apex, winged, with pitted surfaces marked with short grooves; 

 ventral suture rather narrow, wnnged, with furrows of medium depth along the sides; 

 dorsal suture grooved, with winged sides. 



SURPASSE 



I. Mich. Sla. Bui. 169:227. 1899. 2. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:357. 1903. 

 Surpasse Melocoton. 3. Mich. Ilorl. Soc. Rpl. 33. 1874. 4. Barry Fr. Garden 4oy. 1883. 5. R.I. 

 Sla. Bui. 7:41. 1890. 



As Surpasse grows on the Station grounds, it has most of the qualities 

 of a first-class yellow-fleshed, freestone peach. The fruits are large, 

 handsome and of excellent quality, while the trees are satisfactory in every 

 respect except, possibly, in productiveness. The variety has been grown 

 sufficiently long in New York to have been well tested and has not found 

 favor, so that we must conclude that it does not do as well elsewhere as 

 here and that it is doomed to go into the discard. 



Surpasse originated more than forty years ago on the grounds of 

 Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, New York, and has long been sold by 

 this nursery firm. It has never been widely nor largely grown commercially 

 but is not uncommon in western New York. 



Tree above medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading, with a tendency to droop, 

 rather unproductive; trvmk thick and smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown 

 mingled with light ash-gray; branchlets thick, inclined to rebranch, long, dark pinkish- 

 red with some green, smooth except for the lenticels, glabrous, with very conspicuous, 

 numerous, large and small, raised lenticels. 



Leaves six inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide, variable in position, oval 



