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Large White Cling, i. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 495- 1845. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 211. 1856. 



New York White Cling. 4. Lond. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 6:410. 1826. 



Williatns New York? 5. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 105. 1831. 



This variety was raised about 1807 by David Williamson of New York. It soon became 

 •very popular among the clingstones in New England and held a place in the fruit-list of 

 the American Pomological Society from 1856 untU 1891. Tree hardy and a regular bearer; 

 glands globose; flowers small; fruit large, round; suture slight; skin white, with a light 

 red cheek; flesh tender, melting, juicy, sweet; ripens the first half of September. 

 Larkin Early, i. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 115. 1880. 



Raised by D. F. Larkin, Hunts Station, Tennessee. Said to be as fine as Large Early 

 York and earlier than Alexander. 

 Larkin Trophy, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 161. 1881. 



Listed as growing in northern Texas. 

 Last of Season, i. Utah Sta. Bui. 18:13. 1892. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Late Barnard, i. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:218. 1899. 



Tree strong, roundish-upright, with drooping branches, fairly productive; fruit mediimi 

 to large, roundish-oval, compressed near the suture; cavity narrow, deep; skin yellow, with 

 a dark red cheek; flesh red at the pit, firm, juicy, rich, sweet; quality good; stone large, 

 plump, free; season the middle of September. 

 Late Catherine, i. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820. 



Ripens in October. 

 Late Delaware, i. Pa. Dept. Ag. Rpt. 149. 1895. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Late Devonian, i. Garden 53:35. 1898. 2. Bunyard-Thomas Fr. Card. 113. 1904. 

 3. Bunyard Cat. Fr. Trees 36. 1913-14. 



Raised by Messrs. Veitch, Exeter, England, from a pit of BeUe de Vitrj^ crossed with 

 Royale; introduced in 1894. The tree is very hardy and the fruit is winning a place among 

 the good, late varieties of England. Glands globose; flowers large, rich pink; fruit large; 

 skin rather woolly, greenish-yellow, with bright red marblings; flesh juicy, pale red at the 

 stone, melting, brisk; freestone; ripens the middle of September. 

 Late Elberta. i. Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 38. 1902-03. 2. Stark Bros. Cat. 35. 1914. 



This variety on the Station grounds seems to be identical with Elberta in tree and 

 fruit-characters. 

 Late Free White, i. Am. Jour. Hart. Si^g. 1870. 



This is a large, palatable peach, ripening about October 15th. 

 Late Mignonne. i. Prince Pom. Man. 1:187. 1831. 



Mignonne Tardive. 2. Mas Le Verger T.Tg, 80, fig. 38. 1866-73. 



The origin of Late Mignonne is doubtful; it is thought to be an American strain of 

 Grosse Mignonne. Glands small, globose; flowers large; fruit large, roundish-truncate, 

 noticeably sutured; skin tender, heavily pubescent, greenish- white, more or less covered 

 with deep purple; fle-sh white, stained with purple around the pit, melting, sweet; stone 

 small, ovoid, free; matures the first of September. 



