258 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Opulent was sent out several years ago by Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, 

 California, as a hybrid between the Muir peach and New White Nectarine. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading with a tendency to droop, medium in pro- 

 ductiveness; trunk smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish -brown with a light ash- 

 gray tinge; branchlets slender, long, with medium to long intemodes, dull red intermingled 

 with green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, large, raised lenticels few in 

 number. 



Leaves six and one-half inches long, one and one-half inches wide, flattened or curled 

 downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery, dark 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 and reniform, 

 reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds tender, large, long, conical or obtuse, pubescent, plump, free; blossoms 

 appear in mid-season ; flowers one and one-eighth inches across, white at the center of the 

 petals becoming dark pink near the margins; pedicels short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube 

 reddish-green, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, narrow, 

 acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals oval or roundish, broadly notched, 

 tapering to long, narrow claws red at the base; filaments five-sixteenths inch long, equal 

 to the petals in length; pistil pubescent at the ovary, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit nmtures in early mid-season; two and one-half inches long, two and seven- 

 sixteenths inches wide, round-oval, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity deep, abrupt, 

 often marked with red; suture a mere line or very shallow, often a slight depression just 

 beyond the point; apex roundish, with a mucronate and recvtrved tip; color creamy- 

 white, with a faint blush, speckled and striped with darker red; pubescence short; skin 

 tough, separates from the pulp; flesh white, juicy, stringy, tender, melting, sweet but 

 sprightly; fair in quality; stone free, one and five-sixteenths inches long, seven-eighths 

 inch wide, ovate to slightly oval, flattened at the base, plump, short-pointed, with pitted 

 surfaces marked by few grooves; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the edges, medium 

 in width, furrowed; dorsal suture deeply grooved. 



PALLAS 



I. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 55. 1885. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 4.6. 1891. 3. ia. 5to. Bw/. 17:499. 1891. 

 4. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:805. 1896. 5. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:239, 240. 1898. 6. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:222. 

 1899. 7. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:353. I903- 8. Fla. Sta. Bid. 73:150- I904- 9- Ala. 5to. 

 Bui. 156:134. 1911. 



Pallas Honeydew. 10. Ohio Sta. Bui. 170:178. 1906. 



Pallas is about the best of the several honey-flavored, beaked peaches 

 that have fruited on the Station grovinds. This is one of the sorts supposed 

 to thrive only in warm climates but here, in a location none too favorably 

 situated as to climate, the trees are vigorous, appear to be hardy and differ 

 from northern varieties, so far as life events are concerned, only in holding 

 their leaves longer. The fruits run small and lack tmiformity in size, 



