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Alexandra, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 213. 1866. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 597. 1S69. 

 3. Budd-Hansen .4)m. Hort. Man. 2:336. 1903. 



.Alexandra Xoblesse. 4. Card. Man. 7:373. 1865. 



Noblesse Seedling. 5. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 318 fig., 319. 1904. 



This variety was raised many years ago by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, 

 from seeds of the old Noblesse, a sort at one time prominent in the Old World. Curiously 

 enough Alexandra has been many times confused with Alexander, a variety of American 

 origin differing from the European sort both in color of skin and in season. Although of 

 excellent quality Alexandra seems never to have foimd favor in America. Tree vigorous, 

 healthy, productive; fruit large, round, marked with a deep suture; skin covered with a 

 rough pubescence, pale, without any color except a few clusters of red dots on the side 

 exposed to the sun; flesh white to the stone, tender, melting, juicy, richly flavored, \'inous, 

 sweet; quality ve^^• good; stone large, free; season the middle of August. 

 Alexandre Dumas, i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 408. 1889. 



Listed as a clingstone in this reference. 

 Alexiana Cherpin. i. Decaisne /ard. Fn«7. 7: PI. 1872-75. 



Tree vigorous; branches slender: leaves large; glands reniform; flowers large; fruit 

 large, globular; suture more pronounced near the ca\-ity; skin heavih- pubescent, wine-red 

 becoming violet, marbled, adheres to the ptilp; flesh blood-red, fibrous, melting, aromatic; 

 stone large, ovoid, free; ripens early in October. 

 Alexis Lepere. i. Rei\ Hort. 471. 1892. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 84 fig. 1906. 



Alexis Lepere, Jr., Montreuil, France, grew this variety from seed about 1876. Tree 

 vigorous, productive; leaves glandless; flowers small; fruit large, roundish, faintly conic; 

 skin greenish-yellow, marbled with carmine; flesh white, tinged with red about the stone, 

 fine, melting, juicy, aromatic; quality ver^' good; stone free; ripens the last of August. 

 Alger Winter, i. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 297. 1875. 



A yellow, freestone peach which ripens late and keeps long. 

 Algerine. i. Peachland Ntir. Cat. 12. 1892. 



The catalog of the Peachland Nurseries, Seaford, Delaware, describes this v^ariety 

 as a large, yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach. 

 Alice. I. Munson Cat. 6. 1898-99. 2. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:90. 1901. 



Alice Haupt. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 152. 1883. 



Alice is a white-fleshed, freestone seedling of Chinese Cling raised by William W. 

 Haupt, K}le, Texas. 

 Alice Free. i. Green River Nur. Cat. 14. 1899. 



The catalog of the Green River Nurseries, Bowling Green, Kentucky, states that 

 J. W. Shalcross, Louisville, Kentucky, first grew Alice Free. Fruit verj- large; skin white, 

 red where exposed; quahty good; ripens late in October. 

 Alida. 1. Horticulturist 22: ^sH- 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees y4w. 597. 1869. 



Alida originated with Charles Carpenter, Kelh- Island, Ohio, and is probably a seedling 

 of Late Crawford. Fruit large, rovmd; skin blushed with dark red; flesh yellow, juicy; 

 quality good; ripens in September. 

 Allen I. I. Cultivator N. S. 1:352. 1844. 2. Hooper W. Fr. Book 212. 1857. 



Allen I reproduces itself from seed, having been so grown for a number of years by a 



