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than it now receives — the peaches are exceptionally uniform in size. 

 The color-plate, by the way, shows shape and color very well but does not 

 give a fair idea of the size, as the peaches grow larger in average years. 

 Though long grown, Eureka is worthy further trial in New York. 



Eureka is a seedling of Chinese Cling foiind nearly half a century ago 

 in Bossier Parish, Lotiisiana. It was introduced by L. T. Sanders and 

 Son, Plain Dealing, Louisiana. 



Tree above meditun in size, upright-spreading, round-topped, semi-hardy to hardy, 

 very productive; trunk thick; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown overspread with 

 very light ash-gray; branchlets with long intemodes, reddish Ughtly intermingled with 

 olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with numerous conspicuous, large lenticels. 



Leaves five inches long, one and seven-sixteenths inches wide, folded upward, variable 

 m shape, leathery; upper surface dark green intermingled with olive-green, smooth becoming 

 rugose near the midrib; lower surface grayish-green, with a prominent midrib; margin 

 finely or coarsely serrate, glandular; petiole five-sixteenths inch long, with two to six large, 

 reniform glands variable in color and position. 



Flower-buds somewhat tender, small, short, heavily pubescent, obtuse or conical, 

 plump, usually appressed; blossoms open early; flowers one and thirteen-sixteenths inches 

 across, pink, well distributed; pedicels very short, medium to thick, glabrous, green; calyx- 

 tube reddish-green, greenish-yellow within, obconic; calyx-lobes usually broad, obtuse, 

 glabrous within, pubescent without; petals oval or ovate, entire, broadly and shallowly 

 crenate, tapering to long claws reddish at the base; fUaments one-half inch long, shorter 

 than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, as long as the stamens. 



Fruit matures early; about two and seven-sixteenths inches in diameter, round or 

 round-oval, bulged on one side, compressed, with tmequal halves; cavity shallow, abrupt; 

 suture shallow, deepening at the apex; apex flattened or more or less rounded, with mucro- 

 nate tip; color greenish-white or creamy-white, often with a distinct, bright red blush 

 overspreading one-third of the surface, with faint mottlings; pubescence fine, thick, short; 

 skin thin, tender, separates from the pulp; flesh white, tender and melting, very juicy, 

 pleasant flavored, good; stone free, one and one-half inches long, one inch wide, ovate 

 to oval, tapering to a long point, with corrugated and deeply pitted surfaces; ventral 

 suture winged, deeply grooved along the edges, narrow; dorsal sutxire a narrow groove. 



FAMILY FAVORITE 



r. Card. Mon. 22:304. 1880. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 114. 1880. 3. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:807 

 fig. 7. 1896. 4. £>e/. 5to. i?/>/. 13:99. 1901- 5- Budd-Hansen^w. if art. AfoM. 2:344. i903- 6. 4»n. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1909. 



Family Favorite is one of the well-known peaches in the South-Central 

 States but in most respects falls far short of Champion, with which it must 

 compete, in New York. The tree is doubtfully hardy and the fruit scabs 

 badly. The variety has two characters to commend it and to give it 



