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intermediate in size and length, conical to pointed, slightly pubescent, usually free ; flowers 

 appear in mid-season. 



Fruit matures in late mid-season ; two and one-half inches long, two and five-sixteenths 

 inches w^de, roundish-oval ; cavity medium to deep, wide, flaring, often mottled with red ; 

 suture shallow, becoihing deeper at the apex and extending beyond; apex mucronate to 

 roundish-mamelon, recurved; color green or golden-yellow, with a faint blush and mottled 

 with red; pubescence fine, long, thick; skin thin, tender, variable in adhesion to .the pulp; 

 flesh yellow, juicy, stringy, tender and melting, sweet to sprightly, pleasantly flavored; 

 very good in quality; stone semi-free to free, one and one-fourth inches long, nearly one 

 inch wide, oval, pltimp, flattened near the base, short-pointed, the surfaces usually grooved 

 and with few pits; ventral suture winged, deeply marked along the edges, narrow; dorsal 

 suttire winged grooved. 



LEVY 



I. Card. Mon. 23:82. l88l. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 37. 1909. 3. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 204. 



1913- 



Henrietta. 4. V. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 380. 1858. 5. Cult. & Count. Gent. 45:649. 1880. 6. Tex. 

 Sta. Bui. 39:807. 1896. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 8. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 203. 1913. 



Levy Late. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. ^2, g^. 1881. 10. Downing Fr. Trees Am. ^'^d App. 171. 1881. 

 II. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:349. 1903. 



This variety ripens quite too late for any but the most favorable 

 peach-sections in New York. It is a round, yellow-fleshed clingstone of 

 very good quality and might be planted in the parts of New York, where 

 the season permits it to mature, for a very late culinary peach. It is one 

 of the favorite peaches to close the season in Southern fruit-growing sections. 



The history of Levy is badly confused. More than half a century 

 ago a peach called Henrietta was cultivated. Where or when the variety 

 originated no one can tell. In 1881, Downing mentioned a peach under 

 the name Levy Late as being a new, late clingstone originating in the 

 garden of W. W. Levy, Washington, District of Columbia. Downing 

 gave Henrietta as a synonym of Levy Late, as have several pomologists 

 since. From these facts, it seems safe to say that the variety is old, that 

 it was first introduced as Henrietta and that the peach which Mr. Levy 

 claimed to have originated was Henrietta. The American Pomological 

 Society, in 1899, added this peach to its frmt-list as Henrietta but in 1909 

 changed the name to Levy, giving Henrietta as a synonym. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright to quite spreading, hardy, productive; trunk thick, 

 rough; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown intermingled with very light ash-gray; 

 branchlets slender, with intemodes dark red or purplish-red mingled with light green, 

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



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



