THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 447 



Pride of Idaho, i. Chase Cat. 20. 1S95. 2. .V. Y. Sta. Rpt. 15:290. 1897. 



According to the R. G. Chase Company, Geneva, New York, this peach originated 

 in the mountains of Western Idaho. Fruit of medium size, having a yellow skin, with 

 a slight blush; ripens after Late Crawford. 

 Pride of Northboro. i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 434. 1904. 



Said to have done well in the xacinity of Shenandoah, Iowa. 

 Prince Blood Clingstone, i. Prince Pom. Man. 2:32. 1832. 



A superior variety of its class raised by William Prince; used mostly for preserves, 

 compotes, and pickles. Flowers small; fruit large, oval; skin ver\- doT\-ny, dark purplish; 

 flesh crimson; flavor indifferent. 

 Prince Climax, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 641. 1857. 



Said to have originated on the farm of George Mitchell, Flushing, New York. Tree 

 very productive; fruit large, oval; skin yellow, mottled with a crimson cheek; flesh yellow, 

 very rich, aromatic, with a pineapple flavor; stone adherent; ripens from the middle to 

 the end of September. 

 Primce Eugene, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 228. 1866. 



Eugcn von Savoyen. 2. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 3:205. 1858. 



Prinz Eugen. 3. Thomas Guide Prat. 50, 223. 1876. 



Similar to Early Purple, of which it is a seedling, but smaller and more deeply sutm^ed. 

 Tree ^-igorous and very productive; ripens the middle of August. 

 Prince John. i. Elliott Fr. Book 302. 1859. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:246, 247 fig. 1S79. 



This variety is of American origin and was sent to France in i860 by P. J. Berckmans, 

 Augusta, Georgia. Fruit large, rotmdish or rovmdish-oval ; skin orange-yellow, with a 

 deep red blush; flesh deep yellow, firm, very juicy, ^ath a delicious flavor; stone free; ripens 

 the middle of September in France. 

 Prince Late Yellow Freestone, i. Bridgeman Gard. Ass't. Pt. 3:107, 108. 1857. 



A beautiful, greenish-yellow fruit, tinged with red, having a firm, rich flesh. 

 Prince of Wales, i. Hogg Fruit Man. 229. 1866. 2. Am. Hort. Ann. 79, 80. 1870. 

 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 30. 1877. 



Prinz von Wales. 4. Gaucher Pom. Prak. Obst. No. 90, Tab. 17. 1894. 



Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, raised this peach from a seed of Pitmaston 

 Orange nectarine. It fruited first in America with James H. Ricketts, Newbvirgh, New 

 York, in 1869. The variety held a place in the American Pomological Society's fruit-list 

 from 1877 to 1 89 1. Tree \'igorous, bearing leaves with reniform glands; fruit of mediiun 

 size, roundish, shghtly flattened, with one side enlarged; suture distinct, extending beyond 

 the apex; skin creamy-white, shaded and mottled with red in the sun; flesh white, stained 

 red at the stone from which it freely separates, juicy, tender, melting, sweet, with a rich, 

 vinous flavor; ripens early in September. 

 Princess Paragon, i. Horticulturist N. S. 7:177- 1857. 



Fruit large, oval, ■s\-ith one side larger than the other; skin yellowish-white, dotted 

 and nearly overspread with red; flesh white, melting, juicy; quality good; freestone; ripens 

 the middle of August. 



