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identical with those here used, in Btilletin 364 from this Station, published in 

 191 3, with the result that it is now being tried in several parts of the State 

 and we shall soon know what its commercial value is this far north. 



The parentage of Lola is unknown. The variety originated from 

 seed planted in 1876 by J. W. Stubenrauch, Mexia, Texas, who named 

 it Miss Lola in honor of his daughter. The American Pomological Society 

 listed Lola in its catalog in 1899 as " Lolo." In 1909, however, the spelling 

 was changed to Lola as it is correctly written. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, productive; trunk thick, 

 smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown with a light tinge of ash-gray; 

 branchlets very long, with intemodes of mediimi length, dark pinkish-red intermingled 

 with pale green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, numerous, small, raised 

 lenticels. 



Leaves six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, variable in position, oval to 

 obovate-lanceolate, thin; upper surface dull, dark green; lower surface silvery-green; 

 apex acuminate; margin finely serrate to nearly crenate, glandular; petiole three-eighths 

 inch long, with one to five reniform glands usually on the petiole. 



Flower-buds hardy, obtuse, very plump, heavily pubescent, appressed or free; 

 blossoms open early; flowers nearly two inches across, light to dark pink, usually in twos; 

 pedicels short, slender, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green at the base, greenish- 

 yellow within, somewhat campantdate, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, glabrous 

 within, pubescent without; petals ovate, deeply indented near the base, faintly crenate, 

 tapering to narrow claws; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil, 

 pubescent near the base, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures in early mid-season; two and three-eighths inches long, two and 

 one-half inches wide, round-oval, usually somewhat oblique, compressed, with nearly 

 equal halves; cavity deep, wide, abrupt, with tender skin; sut\u:e shallow, deepening toward 

 the tip; apex small, mucronate, roundish or somewhat depressed; color creamy- white 

 blushed with carmine deepened by a few dark splashes; pubescence short, thin; skin thin, 

 tough, separating from the pulp; flesh white, rayed with red near the pit, very juicy, 

 tender and melting, sweet, with a pleasant sprightliness ; good in quality; stone semi-free 

 to free, one and three-eighths inches long, fifteen-sixteenths inch wide, obovate, plump, 

 abruptly pointed, with corrugated and pitted surfaces; ventral suture wide, winged, deeply 

 furrowed along the edges; dorsal suture a deep, narrow groove. 



MAMIE ROSS 



I. Can. Hort. 17:346. 1894. 2. Tex. Sla. Bui. 39:807, 808 fig. 8. 1896. 3. Ga. Sla. Bui. 42:238. 

 1898. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 5. Del. Sta. Rpl. 13:104, 105. 1901. 6. Budd-Hansen ^m. 

 Hort. Man. 2:351. 1903. 7. Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 205. 1913. 



Mamie Ross seems to have a very good reputation as a table and 

 market peach in Texas and other parts of the South but is hardly worth 



