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American Orchardist tinder the name Crawford's Superb Malacatune. No 

 doubt it has a worthy line of ancestors in the old seedUng orchards of the 

 early colonists, the fact that it is the founder of a race indicating long- 

 continued reproduction from seeds with little interposition of budding. 

 At the National Convention of Fruit-Growers held in 1848, Late Crawford 

 was placed in the list of recommended fruits and since that time has held 

 a place on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society. It was 

 first listed as Crawford's Late; later as Crawford's Late Melocoton and 

 now appears as Late Crawford in accordance with the Society's rules of 

 nomenclature. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, not very productive; trunk 

 stocky, smooth; branches thick, smooth, reddish-brown mingled with light ash-gray; 

 branchlets long, somewhat twiggy, dark reddish-brown overlaid with olive-green, 

 smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, numerous, small, raised lenticels. 



Leaves six and seven-eighths inches long, one aiid three-fourths inches wide, folded 

 upward and curled downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thick, leathery; upper surface 

 dark olive-green, smooth becoming rugose along the midrib ; lower surface grayish-green ; 

 margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole one-half inch long, with 

 one to six small, globose, reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds tender, large, above mediiun in length, obtuse or conical, plump, very 

 pubescent, appressed or free; blossoms open in mid-season; flowers one and one-eighth 

 inches across, pink, well distributed; pedicels short, medium to slender, glabrous, green; 

 calyx-tube reddish-green, orange-colored within, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes medium 

 to broad, obtuse, glabrous within; pubescent without, becoming heavily pubescent near 

 the edges; petals oval to ovate, notched at the base, tapering to narrow claws which are 

 reddish at the base; filaments seven-sixteenths inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil 

 pubescent near the base, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures late; two and three-fourths inches long, two and eleven-sixteenths 

 inches wide, roundish-oval, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity deep, medium to 

 narrow, abrupt or flaring; suture shallow, deepening toward the apex; apex roundish, 

 with a slightly pointed and swollen beak-like tip; color deep yellow, dully or brightly 

 blushed, with the red cheek splashed with darker red; pubescence short, fine; skin thick, 

 tough, separates readily from the pulp; flesh yellow, strongly stained with red at the pit, 

 juicy, firm but tender, sweet but sprightly, richly flavored; very good in quality; stone 

 free, one and three-fourths inches long, one and one-eighth inches wide, ovate, flattened, 

 bulged on one side, blunt-pointed, flattened near the base, with surfaces deeply pitted 

 and grooved; ventral suture deeply grooved along the edges; dorsal suture a deep, wide 

 groove, winged. 



LATE RARERIPE 

 I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1897. 2. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 204. 1913. 

 Prince Red Rareripe. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:16. 1832. 4. Elliott Fr. Book 278. 1854. 

 Late Red Rareripe. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 486. 1845. 6. Am. Pom Soc. Cat. 78. 1862. 

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