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ending in a mamelon tip at the apex; suture distinct; skin tender, heavily pubescent, yellow, 

 marbled and striped with purple on a deep carmine blush; flesh stained at the pit, melting, 

 very jvdcy, sprightly; stone free, large, plump; ripens at the end of August. 

 Cornice de Bourbourg. i. Brehaut Peach Primer 173. 1866. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 

 6: loi, 102 fig. 1879. 



A seedling from Bourbourg, Nord, France, first fruiting about 1850. Glands small, 

 both renifonn and globose; flowers of mediiun size; fruit large, roundish-oval, distinctly 

 sutured; skin tender, light yeUow, streaked with carmine; flesh white, melting, juicy, tinged 

 about the pit, sprightly; stone free; ripens the middle of September. 

 Compton Pure Gold. i. Ill- Hort. Soc. Rpt. 77. 1893. 



Exhibited from Illinois at the World's Fair, in 1893. 

 Comte d'Ansembourg. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:186. 1883. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Comte de Neperg. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1S83. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Comtesse de Hainaut. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 6:79, 80, PI. 1858. 



Of Belgian origin, being a seedling of Early Purple found near the Royal Chateau 

 at Laeken. Flowers large; fruit large, roundish; suture distinct but not deep; skin clear 

 yellow; flesh yellowish-white except at the pit; stone large, free; ripens the first half of 

 September. 



Comtesse de Montijo. i. Thomas Guide Prat. 53. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 

 524. 1906. 



Obtained about 1848 by a gardener, Gauthier, in Paris, France. Tree vigorous, pro- 

 ductive; glands very small, globose; flowers of medium size; fruit large, roundish; skin 

 creamy-white, with a blush, often streaked; flesh melting, sprightly; ripens the middle of 

 September. 

 Con Cling, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1S73. 



Con Cling appeared on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society from 1873 

 until 1883 without a description. Recommended for Oregon. 



Condor, i. Jour. Hort. N. S. 28:470. 1875. 2. Lauche Ergdnzimgsba}id 701 fig., 702. 

 1883. 



A large and beautiful seedling of Early Silver. Tree vigorous, productive; glands 

 reniform; flowers of mediiun size; fruit very large, globular, halves equal, distinctly suttued; 

 skin greenish-yellow, blushed with pale red; flesh white, tinged at the stone, juicy, melting; 

 stone oval, truncate at the base; ripens in August. 



Congress, i. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820. 2. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 95. 1831. 

 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:27. 1832. 4. Carri^re Var. Peckers 66, 67. 1S67. 



Begtiine de Termonde? 5. Thomas Guide Prat. 21, 215. 1876. 



First cultivated by Alfred Livingston, Westchester County, New York. Leaves with 

 reniform glands; flowers of medium size; fruit large, oval, pale yellow, blushed with red; 

 clingstone; ripens in September. 

 Conkling. i. Ellwanger & Barry Cat. 33. 1879. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1909. 



E. M. Conkling, Parma Comers, New York, introduced this peach about 1877, having 



