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tinged with red in the sun; flesh white to the stone, very juicy, excelHng Heath CUng in 

 tenderness and flavor; clingstone; ripens the second week in September in Georgia. 

 Donegal, i. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 25. 1894. 



Fruit large, roundish; cavity large and deep; skin thin, tenacious, velvety, yellow, 

 sprinkled with dark red; flesh yellow, tinged at the pit, tender, melting, juicy, subacid; 

 quality good to above; stone small, oval, free; season follows Smock. 

 Dorsetshire Mignonne. i. Loud. Hort. Soc. Cat. gg. 183 1. 



A large-sized fruit of second quality ripening at the end of September; glands reni- 

 form; flowers small; skin dark red on a pale yellow ground; flesh melting. 

 Dorothy, i. Glen St. Mary Nur. Cat. 12. 1901. 2. P'la. Sta. Bid. 62:512. 1902. 

 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1909. 



A seedling of Angel grown by G. H. Norton, Eustis, Florida. In 1909, it was listed 

 by the American Pomological Society. Fruit large, nearly round; flesh yellow, rich, 

 subacid; freestone; ripens early in July in Florida. 

 Double Blanche de Fortune, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. ^^^?,- 



Listed in this reference. 

 Double Cramoisie de Fortune, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12: 185. 1883. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Double Jaune. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:165, 166, fig. ig. 1883. 



Originated in the vicinity of Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. Leaves with 

 reniform glands; flowers medium in size; fruit large, roundish-oval, ending in a mamelon 

 tip; deeply sutured; skin thin, tender, canary-yellow, nearly covered with an intense 

 reddish-brown; flesh yellow to the stone, melting, juicy, with an apricot flavor; of fir.st 

 quality; stone small for the size of fruit, oval, freestone; ripens at the end of August. 

 Double Mountain, i. Brookshaw Pom. Brit. i:Pl. 26. 1817. 2. Christ Handb. 592. 

 1817. 3. Lindley G^m'd^ Orc/7. Garti. 246. 1831. 



Sion. 4. Miller Carcf. Dzci. 1752. 



Doppelter Bergpfirsich. 5. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkundc 3:198. 1858. 



An excellent French variety very similar to Noblesse but ripening a week earlier. 

 Leaves doubly serrate, glandless, not as susceptible to mildew as most French varieties; 

 flowers large; fruit of medium size, roundish, flattened at the apex; skin greenish -white, 

 marbled with deep red on a soft red blush; flesh white to the stone, melting, juicy, 

 highly flavored; stone mucronate, rugged, free; ripens from the middle to the last of 

 August. 

 Down Easter, i. Elliott Fr. Book 283. 1854. 



Hall Down-Easter. 2. Cole Am. Fr. Book 196, 197. 1849. 



This variety originated many years ago with M. Hall, Portland, Maine. It has 

 long since passed from cultivation. Tree hardy and productive; fruit large, roundish, 

 with a deep suture; skin yellow, with a broad, red cheek; quality fair; season the last of 

 September. 

 Downer. 1. Card. Man. ig: 11^. 1877. 



A seedling of the old Red Rareripe, grown at Newburyport, Massachusetts; never 

 disseminated. 



