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have confused Honest John with Large York, George IV and Haines but all of these 

 are distinct. Tree large, vigorous; fruit large, roundish-oval, compressed; apex roundish 

 or slightly pointed; color greenish-yellow changing to deep yellow, mottled and blushed with 

 dull carmine; fresh yellow, tinged with red near the pit, moderately juicy, meaty yet tender, 

 subacid, inferior in flavor; fair in quality; stone free; ripens in mid-season. 

 Honey, i. Horticulturist N. S. 8:456. 1858. 2. Jour. Hort. N. S. 5:188. 1863. 

 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 617. 1869. 4. Hogg Fruit Mati. 450. 1884. 5. .4));. 

 Pom. Sac. Cat. 30. 1889. 6. Fla. Sta. Bui. 73:141-143. 1904. 



Moiitigny. 7. Mas Le Verger T.6g, 70, fig. t,?,- 1866-73. 8. Carriere Var. Pechcrf 

 59, 60. 1867. 9. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:169, 170 fig. 1879. 



Honey is a Chinese peach probably first raised in Europe from seed sent to the Jardin 

 des Plantes at Paris, by de Montigny, Consul of France, at Shanghai. The name Honey 

 may have been applied to it in England. It reproduces itself closely from seed and a 

 nimiber of slight variations from the original type have been found in America. The 

 strain chiefly grown in this country' was raised by Charles Downing from seed brought 

 from China. Downing's seedlings failed but prior to their failure he had sent grafts from 

 them to Henrj' Lyons, Columbia, South Carolina, who grew some trees. The variety was 

 probably disseminated in America from this source. In 1889 the American Pomological 

 Society added Honey to its list of fruits. Tree \'igorous, hardy and productive in the 

 >outh; glands usually reniform but sometimes globose; fruit small to medium, oblong-oval, 

 tapering at the apex into a long, sharp nipple or beak, and marked with a distinct suture ; 

 color whitish-yeUow, washed and dotted with red, which deepens to almost a crimson 

 blush; flesh creamy-white, streaked with red around the pit, juicy, very tender, melting, 

 sweet, with a distinct, rich, honey-like flavor; quality ver\- good; pit free; season in the 

 South from the middle of June to the first of July. 

 Honey Cling, i. Cal. Sta. Rpt. 369, 371, 373. 1892-94. 



Fruit white, verj' highly colored and ver>' sweet. 

 Honey Seedling, i. Fla. Sta. Rpt. 8:86, 89. 1896. 



A seedling of Honey propagated by the Florida Station. 

 Honeywell, i. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 299. 1875. 



John Honej-weU, Randolph, Ohio, raised this peach. Said to be earlier than Alexander. 

 Hoover Heath, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1887. 2. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:236. 1898. 



Hoover Late Heath. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 28. 1873. 



Hoover Late. 4. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 297. 1875. 



This variety is a seedling of Heath. It appeared on the fruit-list of the American 

 Pomological Society in 1873 as Hoover Late Heath. In 1887 the name was changed to its 

 present form; in 1899 the variety was dropped. Tree low in habit, straggling, spreading; 

 glands reniform. 

 Hopes Early Red. i. Tex. Sta. Bui. 8:34. 1889. 



Listed but not described. 

 Hopkinsville. i. Downing Fr. Trees .Am. 3rd App. 170. 1881. 



Raised from seed by James Quisenbtirg, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Tree repro- 

 duces itself from seed; leaves without glands; flowers small; fruit large, oblong. v\dth a 



