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honey-flavored peaches make necessary a division in regard to shape — 

 globular, flat, beaked; a further separation into early, medium and late sorts 

 could then be made. A great merit in this extremely simple classification 

 is that the language of the layman fits it. As examples: Greensboro would 

 follow the key from bottom to top — an early, round, white-fleshed, free- 

 stone peach ; or Salwey , a late, round, yellow-fleshed, freestone peach. 

 This key provides for seventy-two groups, fifty-four for the peach and 

 eighteen for the nectarine, the latter having but the globular form. Other 

 characters, of less general application in the key than those so far used, 

 as size, flavor, adherence or non-adherence of the skin, suture, apex, and 

 stone, could be used to carry this classification still further. 



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