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Michigan, with a number of seedlings, several others of which proved 

 valuable. Late Crawford may have been the seed parent but of this 

 there can be no certainty. The American Pomological Society added 

 Engle to its list of recommended fruits in 1909. 



Tree very large, upright becoming spreading, tall, hardy, medium in productiveness; 

 tnmk thick, variable in smoothness; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown covered 

 with light ash-gray; branchlets long, heavily tinged with olive-green, glossy, smooth, 

 somewhat tortuous, inclined to rebranch, glabrous, with numerous small, conspicuous, 

 raised lenticels. 



Leaves six and one-fourth inches long, one and three-eighths inches wide, irregularly 

 curled, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin; upper surface rather dark, dull olive-green, rugose 

 along the midrib; lower surface light grayish-green; apex narrow-acuminate; petiole three- 

 eighths inch long, with one to four small, globose, greenish-yellow glands at the base of 

 the leaf. 



Flower-buds large and long, conical, plump, pubescent, free; blossoms appear in 

 mid-season ; flowers light pink at the center, darker red near the edges, one and one-eighth 

 inches across; pedicels very short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube duU reddish-green, orange- 

 colored within, obcdnic, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, acute, glabrous within, heavily 

 pubescent without; petals oval to slightly ovate, faintly and broadly crenate, tapering 

 to claws with red base; filaments three-eighths inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil 

 pubescent at the ovary, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; two inches long, two and seven-sixteenths inches wide, 

 round-oval to cordate, becoming almost oWate in some specimens, bulged near the apex, 

 compressed, with unequal sides; cavity abrupt to flaring; suture shallow, deepening toward 

 the apex; apex variable in shape; color greenish-yellow changing to orange-yeUow, in 

 parts overspread with a bright red blush, splashed with darker red; pubescence short, 

 thick, fine; skin thin, tougfi, separates readily from the piUp; flesh pale yellow, stained 

 with red near the pit, juicy, tender and melting, sweet or pleasantly subacid, mild; good 

 in quaUty; stone free, one and five-sixteenths inches long, fifteen-sixteenths inch wide 

 ovate, bulged on one side, plump, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture very deeply grooved 

 along the edges; dorsal suture grooved, often winged. 



EUREKA 



I. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 115. 1880. 2. Card. Man. 24:211. 212. 1882. 3. CT. S. D. A. Pom. 

 Rpt. 42. 1895. 4. Mich. Sta. Bui. 205:31. 1903. 



In the South where Eureka originated, the variety seems to have a 

 very good reputation as an early, white-fleshed, semi-free peach. In New 

 York the variety ripens early, when there are many other good peaches of 

 its type, and it is therefore doubtful if it will ever have a prominent place 

 in peach-growing in this State. As the variety grows on the Station 

 grounds, one quality, in particular, marks Eureka as worthy more attention 



