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yellowish-white, deep red at the pit which is adherent, coarse, acid, bitter; ripens in 

 September. 



Tuskena. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Kpt. 75. 1873. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 34. 1899. 

 3. Mich. Sta. Bid. 169:228. 1899. 



Tusketta Cling. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 28. 1873. 



Tuscan Cling. 5. Okla. Sta. Bui. 2:15. 1892. 



Yellow Tuscany. 6. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:360. 1903. 



Tuskena originated in Mississippi. It received a place on the fruit-list of the American 

 Pomological Society in 1873 but was dropped in 1897, only to be replaced in 1899. Fruit 

 large, roundish-oval; skin yellow, with a dark red cheek; flesh adherent, yellow, red at 

 the pit, firm, vinous, rich; quality good; season the last of September. 

 Twenty-Ounce Cling, i. Oregon Nur. Cat. 36. 1913. 



According to the Oregon Nursery Company, Orenco, Oregon, this is a large, early 

 peach desirable for canning. 

 Twyford. i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 104. 1831. 



Twyford is probably a seedling of Noblesse. Fruit large, pale green, with a red blush ; 

 flesh tender and of good quality ; season the first of September. 

 Tyehurst. i.^Can. Hort. 14:317. 1891. 2. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 2:58. 1895. 



Tyehurst is a chance seedling which originated about thirty years ago with E. Tye- 

 hurst, Leamington, Ontario, Canada. Fruit medium in size, round; skin Ught yellow, 

 with only a faint carmine blush; flesh yellow, slightly stained at the pit, sweet, firm, free; 

 quality fair; ripens the middle of September. 



Ulatis. I. Del. Sta. Rpt. 5:100. 1892. 2. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:815. 1896. 3. Wickson 

 Cal. Fruits 310. i88g. 



Ulatis originated near Vacaville, California, and is supposed to be a seedling of 

 Alexander. Fruit large, roundish-oval; color creamy-white, with a red blush; flesh white, 

 with a good flavor; freestone; ripens with Alexander. 

 Unique, i. Mas Le Verger 7:161, 162, fig. 79. 1866-73. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:293, 



294 fig- 1879- 



New Cut-leaved. 3. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 100. 1831. 



New Serrated. 4. Ibid. loi. 1831. 



Emperor of Russia. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 477. 1845. 6. Floy-Lindley Guide 

 Orch. Card. 184, 185. 1846. 



De Smyrne. 7. .Mag. //or/. 20:271. 1854. 



Schone Jersey Pfirsich. 8. Mauiieu Nom. Pom. 414. 1889. 



Emperor, g. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 37. 1909. 



Unique was raised more than a century ago by Michael Floy, New York City, from 

 a pit of a curious peach-tree with serrate leaves which he had discovered about 1809 in 

 New Jersey. In England the variety was introduced about 1819 as Emperor of Russia. 

 Tree of moderate vigor, bearing narrow, glandless leaves which are very deeply and doubly 

 serrated; fruit large, -roundish, broad, one side much longer than the other; skin dull 

 yellowish-white, with a" dark red cheek; flesh yellowish-white, firm, juicy, rich and aromatic; 

 stone free; season the last of August. 



