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Morris White Freestone. 8. Land. Hort. Sac. Rpt. 6:410. 1826. 9. Floy-Lindley Guide OrcJt. Card. 

 189. 1846. 



Morris White Rareripe. 10. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 481. 1845. 

 Blanche de Morris, ii. Mas Le Verger 7:171, 172. fig- 84. 1866-73. 

 Morris Blanche. 12. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:171 fig., 172. 1879. 



Morris White is one of the ancients of American peach-orchards worth 

 noticing now only because of its worthy past. It is distinguished among 

 peach varieties by its white flesh — white clear to the pit with no trace 

 of red even on the surface or next to the stone. It is further distinguished 

 by its sweet, rich flavor — giving it high rank among the best of peaches — 

 and by the great productiveness of the trees. Though undoubtedly the 

 day of Morris White is passed for either commercial or home orchards, it 

 might still be used advantageously in breeding late, white-fleshed, free- 

 stone peaches. 



William Robert Prince,^ in his Pomological Manual, describes a White 

 Rareripe which he claims originated in the nursery of his grandfather and 

 which can be no other than the Morris White under discussion. The 

 origin of the variety will always be in doubt but probably the elder Prince 

 originated it in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century. Leroy has 

 confused the history of Morris White with that of Red Rareripe, commonly 

 called Morris Red Rareripe, which probably originated with Robert Morris, 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Leroy questions the identity of the White 

 Rareripe mentioned by Coxe but, although the season of Coxe's sort is a 

 trifle earlier than Leroy's, the two are probably the same. There was a 

 White Rareripe grown for a short time in America many years ago which 

 proved to be the old French Nivette renamed. Nivette was not widely 

 disseminated and probably has long since passed from cultivation in 

 America. Morris White was reported upon at the National Convention of 

 Fruit- Growers in 1848 and received a place in the list of recommended 

 fruits. It continued to be listed in the American Pomological Society's 

 fruit-catalog until 1891 when it was dropped but was replaced in 1897 and 

 still remains there. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading to drooping, dense-topped, productive; trunk 

 intermediate in thickness and smoothness; branches stock}^ smooth, reddish-brown with 

 very light tinge of ash-gray; branchlets long, with long intemodes, dark red mingled with 

 green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with many conspicuous, small, raised lenticels at the base. 



" The Plums of New York is dedicated to William Robert Prince through the likeness shown of him 

 in the frontispiece. A brief history of his life is given on page 21 of The Grapes of New York and reprinted 

 on page 24 of The Plums of New York. 



