252 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



of John Muir, near Silveyville, California. G. W. Thissell, Winters, 

 California, named and introduced Muir. The American Pomological 

 Society added this peach to its fruit-list in 1899. 



Tree vigorous, upright or somewhat spreading, hardy, productive; trunk rough; 

 branches smooth, ash-gray over reddish-brown; branchlets slender, long, with short inter- 

 nodes, dark pinkish-red with but a trace of green, smooth, glabrous, with inconspicuous, 

 small, raised lenticels. 



Leaves fall early in the season, six and three-fourths inches long, one and three- 

 eighths inches wide, flat or somewhat curled downward, oval-lanceolate, leathery; upper 

 surface dull, dark green, nearly smooth; lower surface olive-green; apex acuminate; margin 

 bluntly serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole seven-sixteenths inch long, 

 with one to five large, reniform glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds small, short, obtuse, very plump, heavily pubescent, appressed; blossoms 

 open late; flowers seven-eighths inch across; pale pink, darker about the edges, usually 

 singly; pedicels short, green; calyx-tube reddish-green, orange-red within, campanulate, 

 glabrous; calyx-lobes short, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals narrow- 

 oval or ovate, tapering to claws of medium width ; filaments three-eighths inch long, equal 

 to the petals in length ; pistil as long as the stamens. 



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

 inches wide, roundish-cordate or oval, slightly angtilar, compressed, with tmequal halves; 

 cavity shallow, contracted about the sides, abrupt or flaring; suture medium in depth; 

 apex pointed, with a large, recurved, mamelon tip ; color greenish or lemon-yellow, with 

 little if any blush; pubescence heavy, long; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp 

 when fully ripe; flesh yellow, faintly tinged with red near the pit, dry, coarse, tender, 

 sweet, mild; good in qtiality; stone free, one and seven-sixteenths inches long, fifteen- 

 sixteenths inch wide, ovate, flattened, wedge-shape toward the base, tapering to a long 

 apex, with large pits and a few small grooves in the surfaces; ventral suture deeply 

 grooved along the sides, very wide, deeply furrowed; dorsal suture widely and deeply 

 grooved. 



. NIAGARA 



I. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 115. 1900. 2. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:352, 353. 1903. 

 3. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 24. 1904. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 5. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 403:213, 

 214, PI. 1915. 



Newark Seedling. 6. Del. Sta. Rpt. 5:99. 1892. 



Niagara is a variant of a peach which all growers lament as being less 

 and less grown, the Crawford. The Crawford group, though a dominant 

 type, is, as we have several times pointed out, a little too capricious as to 

 soil and climate to suit the needs of commercial peach-growers, failing 

 to bear regularly or abundantly in most soils. For this reason the once 

 very popular Early and Late Crawfords are now seldom grown. All who 

 know these varieties regret that a sort of their type, without their faults. 



