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It first fruited in 1872; in 1877 the American Pomological Society added the variety to 

 its fruit-list but dropped it in 1891. Tree vigorous, productive; glands globose; fruit of 

 medium size, roundish, slightly compressed, with a broad, shallow suture extending beyond 

 the depressed apex; skin greenish- white, nearly covered with light and dark red, nearly 

 purple in the sun; flesh greenish-white throughout, tender, juicy, sweet, slightly vinou?; 

 quality good; stone small, nearly free when mature; season the last of June or earl\- in July. 

 Amsden Pine. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 416. 1899. 



Listed as growing in Canada. 

 Ananiel. i. Mas Lc \'crgcr 7:187, 18S, fig. 92. 1866-73. 2. Thomas Guide Prat. 4?, 

 215. 1876. 



Ananiel originated near Toumay, Belgium. Glands globose; flowers small, rose- 

 colored; fruit large, irregular, spherical, truncated at the base; skin whitish-yellow, more 

 or less covered with purple at maturity; flesh pale, purplish near the stone, melting, very 

 juicy: quality good; stone terminating in a long point, free; ripens the last of September. 

 Andre Leroy. i. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 387. 1889. 



Listed but not described. 

 Andrews, i. Mich. Sta. Bui. 118:29. 1895. 



AndreiL-s Mammoth. 2. Ibid. 31:58. 1887. 



Listed as growing in Michigan. 

 Angel. I. .\m. Pom. Soc. Cat. 44. 1891. 2. Tex. Sta. Bid. 39:818 fig. 1896. 3. Fla. 

 Sta. Bui. 62:509, 510, 519. 1902. 4. Budd-Hansen .4m. Hort. Man. 2:336, 337. 

 1903. 5. Ala. Sta. Bui. 156:132. 191 1. 6. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 198. 1913. 



Angel was grown from a Peento seed by Peter C. Minnich, Waldo, Florida, about 

 thirty years ago. G. L. Taber, Glen Saint Mary, Florida, bought the original tree and 

 introduced the variet\' in 1889. The American Pomological Society added Angel to its 

 fruit-list in 1S91. Tree open, productive; fruit small, roundish; suture shallow, short; 

 apex blunt or very shghtly tipped; skin light creamy-white, tinted and washed with 

 attractive red; flesli white, reddish near the pit, firm, juicy, with a slightly acid, agreeable 

 flavor; quality good; pit free; season the middle of June to the first of July in Florida. 

 Angelle Lafond. i. Thomas Guide Prat. 48. 1876. 



Listed as a large and beautiful variety with renifonn glands. 

 Angers Large Purple, i. Honicidturist N. S. 5:70. 1855. 



Said to be one of the largest and finest of peaches; ripens with Chancellor 

 Anna Rufl&n. i. Van Lindley Cat. 19. 1892. 



Listed without description in the catalog of J. Van Lindley, Pomona, North Carolina. 

 Anne. i. Langley Pomona 100. 1729. 2. Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 27. 1803. 



Early Anne. 3. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 246, 247. 183 1. 



Green Nutmeg. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:23. 1832. 



Anne is an old English sort which for many years was the earliest of all peaches. The 

 variety was named in honor of Mrs. Anne Dunch, Pusey, Berkshire, England. Tree 

 not very vigorous; leaves doubly serrated, glandless; flowers large, nearly white; fruit 

 roundish, medium in size; skin white, blush often lacking- flesh soft, melting, white to 

 the stone, sugar\'; stone free; ripens very early. 



