290 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, rather unproductive; trunk stocky; branches 

 thick, smooth, reddish-brown mingled with light ash-gray; branchlets with intemodes 

 of medium length, dark pinkish-red tinged with pale green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, 

 with conspicuous, numerous, large, raised lenticels. 



Leaves six and three-fourths inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded 

 upward and curled downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dull, 

 dark olive-green, smooth becoming rugose near the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; 

 margin finely serrate and sometimes in two series, tipped with reddish-brown glands; 

 petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to four small, globose glands variable 

 in color and position. 



Flower-buds conical or pointed, pubescent, plump, usually appressed; blossoms 

 open in mid-season; flowers seven-eighths inch across, light pink but darker along the 

 edges, usually single; pedicels short, green; calyx-tube reddish-green, orange-colored 

 within, campanulate; calyx-lobes narrow, acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; 

 petals oval to ovate, shallowly and widely notched towards the base, tapering to claws 

 red at the base; filaments three-eighths inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil as 

 long as the stamens. 



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

 sixteenths inches wide, round-conic to round-cordate, compressed, with unequal halves; 

 cavity contracted and wrinkled about the sides, abrupt or flaring; suture shallow; apex 

 round or somewhat pointed, with a mucronate or mamelon tip; color orange-yellow, with 

 a deep red blush, splashed and mottled with red; pubescence thick, long, coarse; skin 

 thin, tender, variable in adherence to the pulp; flesh yellow, tinged with red near the pit, 

 juicy, fine-grained, tender and melting, sweet, pleasantly flavored; good to very good 

 in quality; stone free, one and one-fourth inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval to 

 ovate, bulged near the apex, plump, tapering to a short point, with grooved and pitted 

 surfaces; ventral suture deeply grooved along the edges, furrowed; dorsal suture grooved, 

 winging. 



