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and is still on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society. Among 

 the multitude of early peaches now grown, Troth cuts but a sorry figure 

 in either tree- or frmt-characters. It is worth discussing here only because 

 it is a milestone in the evolution of cultivated peaches. 



Troth, first known as Troth's Early Red, originated in the first years 

 of the Nineteenth Century, probably in New Jersey. Nothing is known 

 of its parentage or of the originator. It ripens with Early York and some 

 pomologists have confused it with this variety and also with Haines but, 

 while similar to both, Troth is distinct. The American Pomological Society 

 placed the variety upon its fruit-list in 1862 under the name Troth's Early 

 Red but dropped it in 189 1. In 1899 it was once more recommended by 

 the Pomological Society, being listed as Troth. 



Tree above medium in size, vigorous, upright-spreading, the lower branches drooping, 

 very productive; trunk somewhat stocky; branches thick, smooth, reddish-brown covered 

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

 intermingled with green, with conspicuous, ver>' numerous, large and small lenticels; 

 leaves six and one-fourth inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, flattened and 

 slightly curled downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery, dark, dull green, smooth 

 becoming rugose near the midrib; margin finely and shallowly serrate, tipped with 

 reddish-brown glands; petiole seven-sixteenths inch long, with one to five very small, 

 globose, reddish-brown glands; flower-buds half-hardy, of medium size and length, more 

 or less pubescent, obtuse or conical, plump, usually appressed; blossoms small, appear 

 in mid-season. 



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

 roundish -oblate, slightly bulged at one side, somewhat compressed, with halves decidedly 

 unequal; cavity of medium depth and width, abrupt, somewhat irregular, contracted 

 about the sides, often dotted and striped with red; suture rather shallow, extending con- 

 siderably beyond the point; apex roundish or depressed, with a mucronate or slightly 

 pointed tip; color greenish-white or creamy-white, blushed with dark, dull red and with 

 more or less heavy mottlings extending over more than half of the surface; pubescence 

 thick, short; skin thin, tender, adheres somewhat to the pulp; flesh whitish, tinged with 

 red near the pit, variable in juiciness, tender, nearly melting, pleasant flavored; fair to 

 good in quality; stone free, one and one-eighths inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, 

 oval, flattened toward the base, acute at the apex, with grooved surfaces; ventral suture 

 medium in width; dorsal suture grooved. 



WADDELL 

 I. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:242. 1898. 2. Del. Sta. Rpl. 13:111 tig. 9. 1901. 3. Am. Pom. .Sor. Rpl. 

 249. 1903. 4. Budd-Hansen Am. Horl. Man. 2:358. 1903. 5. Ohio Sla. Bill. 170:18:;. U)0(^. 

 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 39. 1909. 7. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 208. 1913. 



Waddell is an early mid-season, white-fleshed, semi-cling peach from 

 Georgia, a very evident descendant of Chinese Cling. The variety is now 



