THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK IQI 



fleshed peach making, so many maintain, a better commercial variety 

 than its rival, Alexander. On our grounds Canada is freer from rot than 

 Alexander and the flesh does not cling as tightly. All agree that the tree 

 is very hardy." However, there ought to be but small place in. the peach- 

 lists of nowadays for a variety so poor in quality and with fruits of such 

 inferior size as those of Canada. 



The variety originated . as a chance seedling more than a quarter- 

 century ago with A. H. High, Jordan, Ontario, Canada. It is often known 

 as Early Canada and is not infrequently confounded with Amsden and 

 Alexander, varieties of the same season. 



Tree large, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive; trunk thick; branches 

 stocky, smooth, reddish-brown overspread with light ash-gray; branchlets with internodes 

 mediiom in length, dark red, with a sHght tinge of green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, sHghtly 

 curving, with numerous conspicuous, large, raised lenticels. 



Leaves folded upward, six inches long, one and one-fourth inches wide, oval to obovate- 

 lanceolate, medium in thickness; upper surface pale olive-green, smooth or rugose; lower 

 surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole 

 one-fourth inch long, with one to four small, globose, greenish-yellow glands variable in 

 position. 



Flower-buds small, short, narrow, pointed, not very plump, dark colored, appressed; 

 blossoms appear in mid-season ; flowers dark pink at the center, bordered with lighter pink, 

 one and one-half inches across; pedicels very short, glabrous, green; cal5rx-tube reddish- 

 green, lemon-yellow within, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, obtuse, glabrous within, 

 slightly or heavily pubescent without; petals roundish-ovate, widely notched at the base, 

 tapering to long, broad claws red at the base; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than 

 the petals; pistil equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures very early; two inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, round- 

 oblate, slightly compressed, with unequal sides; cavity wide, flaring; suture shallow to 

 deep ; apex ending in a mucronate, recurved tip ; color creamy white, blushed with red and 

 mottled and splashed with darker red; pubescence short, thick; skin thin, tender, separates 

 from the pulp; flesh white, juicy, fine-grained, meaty but tender, sweet yet sprightly; 

 fair in quaUty; stone semi-clinging, one and one-eighth inches long, seven-eighths inch 

 wide, round-oval to elliptical, plump, abruptly pointed, with small grooves in the surfaces; 

 ventral suture very deeply grooved along the sides, narrow; dorsal suture deeply grooved. 



CAPTAIN EDE 



I. Lovett Cat. 29. 1897. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 12. 1907. 



Ede. 3. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 183. 1888-89. 4- Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:212. 1899. 5. Del. Sta. 

 Rpt. 13:96. 1900. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 37. 1909. 



Though Captain Ede has been under cultivation forty-six years it 

 has but recently come into prominence and seems now to find favor quite 



