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HYNES 



I. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:812. 1896. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 3. Out. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 

 8:14 fig. 1901. 4. Budd-Hanseu .4ot. iifof/. Man. 2:348. 1903. 



Ilynes Surprise. $. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 50. 1879. 6. lUd. in. 1880. 7. U. S. D. A. 

 Pom. Rpt. 42. 1895. 



Coming at a season when there are several very good, white-fleshed 

 peaches, we doubt whether Hynes can establish itself in the peach-list 

 for New York. The peaches are not quite large enough and the stone 

 clings a little too tenaciously for a first-class early peach. The flavor 

 is good for an early peach and when large enough the fruits are attractive, 

 shape and coloring being particularly pleasing. Hynes was at one time 

 highly recommended, widely advertised and largely sold in New York by 

 nurserymen and fruit-growers in this State. We doubt if many are now 

 planting it. The color-plate is an excellent reproduction of the variety. 



Hynes was grown about 1877 by E. F. Hynes, West Plains, Missouri. 

 Its parentage is unknown. The variety soon became disseminated as a 

 valuable early, commercial peach. At first it was known as Hynes Surprise 

 but gradually the name has been shortened to Hynes. The late S. D. 

 Willard, Geneva, New York, grew and recommended this variety for a 

 number of years and by some has been given the credit of having originated 

 and introduced it. The American Pomological Society put Hynes on its 

 fruit-list in 1899. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, medium in productive- 

 ness; trunk thick; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown with a small amount of a.sh-gray ; 

 branchlets long, with intemodes of medium, length, dark red intermingled with olive-green, 

 glossy, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, large lenticels. 



Leaves six and one-half inches long, about one and one-half inches wide, oval to 

 obovate-lanceolate, leathery, duU, dark green, smooth; lower surface grayish-green; apex 

 tapering to a long, narrow point; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; 

 petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to five small, globose, brownish-yellow glands 

 variable in position. 



Flower-buds hardy, small, short, obtuse, plump, slightly pubescent, usually appressed; 

 blossoms appear in mid-season ; flowers dark pink at the center, light pink near the edges, 

 often in twos; pedicels short, medium to thick, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube reddish- 

 green, greenish-yellow within, campanulate, glabrous ; calyx-lobes short, medium to broad, 

 obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals broadly oval, irregular in outHne, 

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

 petals; pistil pubescent pear the base, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures early; two and one-half inches long, two and one-fotirth inches wide, 

 round-oblate, with halves usually equal; cavity wide, flaring; suture shallow, becoming 



