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free from leaf-curl. Trees large, with a slight drooping tendency; leaves long, large, with 

 small, globose glands; flowers appear in mid-season; fruit large, irregular in outline, 

 roundish-cordate, oblique, halves decidedly unequal; cavity deep and wde; suture often 

 extends two-thirds around the fruit; apex with a small, mamelon tip; skin thick, tough, 

 blushed with dull red on a deep lemon-yellow ground, attractive; flesh stained with red 

 at the stone, firm, coarse, noticeably stringy, moderately sweet but not rich; stone free, 

 ovate. Inilgc'd near the apex; ripens the first of September. 

 McConnell Seedling, i. Can. flort. 18:417. 1895. 



A very hardy seedling grown in Essex County, Canada. 

 McCormick. i. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 189. 1880. 



This peach was foimd by W. H. McCormick, Clyde, Michigan. Tree similar to 

 Late Crawford; glands reniform; fruit nearly round; flesh deep yellow to the stone which 

 is small and free; ripens just ahead of Late Cra\\'ford. 

 McCowan Cling, i. Wickson Cal. Fruits 314. 1889. 



Dr. McCowan, Ukiah, California, raised this variety. It is free from leaf -curl; must 

 he carefully thinned for size; flesh yellow, stained at the pit; good for canning. 

 McCoy Free. i. Winfield Nur. Cat. 15. 1915. 



The Winfield Nursery Company, Winfield, Kansas, states that this variety is a large, 

 yellow freestone, ripening two weeks after Elberta. 

 McCoy Seedling, i. J. R. Johnson Cat. 6. 1894. 



Originated with Henry McCoy, Coshocton County, Ohio; \'ery similar to Wonderful, 

 according to J. R. Johnson, Coshocton, Ohio. 

 McDevitt. I. Wickson Cal. Fruit'; 318. 1889. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 34. 1899. 



McI3evitt is a yellow cling which originated with Neal McDevitt, Placer County, 

 California. In 1899 it was added to the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society. 

 Mcintosh. I. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:238. 1898. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 



Mcintosh is a peach from Georgia which was placed on the fruit-list of the American 

 Pomological Society in 1909. At this Station, it is a light bearer and susceptible to 

 leaf-curl. Tree with a drooping tendency; glands usually globose; flowers appear in 

 mid-season; fruit :nediimi in size, roundish-oval, tapers toward the apex, halves equal; 

 cavity deep, wide, abnipt; suttu^e shallow; apex wnth a mucronate tip; skin thin, tough, 

 pale creamy-yellow, blushed with light red becoming deeper, attractive; flesh white, 

 stained near the pit, juicy, stringy, melting, vinous, aromatic; stone with a clinging 

 tendency, large, oval; ripens the last of August. 

 Mclntyre Late Free. i. Wickson Cal. Fruits 315. 1889. 



Approved by the growers in several counties in California; fruit large, yeUow; of 

 California origin. 

 McKay Late. i. Rural N. Y. 62:835. 1903. 



This is a very late, yellow freestone, originating about 1890 with the late W. L. 

 McKay, Geneva, New York. Tree upright-spreading to slightly drooping, hardy ; glands 

 reniform; flowers appear in mid-season; fruit large, oval, angular; halves decidedly unequal; 

 sides drawn in about the cavity, which is shallow and narrow ; apex with a mucronate tip ; 

 skin heavily pubescent, thick, tough, pale yellow, usually with blush near the cavity but 



