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faults that will not permit Pallas ever to become a commercial sort in New 

 York. Moreover, the peaches are not attractive in appearance, suffer 

 terribly from brown-rot and do not ship well — ftirther disqualifications 

 for competition in commerce. In quality, especially, to those who have 

 a taste for sweets, Pallas is almost unapproachable — so rich, sweet, 

 aromatic and delicious as well to justify the sobriquet, " Honeydew," 

 frequently bestowed upon it. This variety might well be planted in every 

 home orchard. 



Pallas is one of the many, seedlings of Honey and originated in 1878 

 with L. E. Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia. In 1891 the American Pomolog- 

 ical Society added Pallas to its list of fruits as a noteworthy variety for 

 southern fruit-districts. 



Tree raediuin in vigor, upright-spreading, round-topped, productive; trunk rough; 

 branches roughened by the lenticels, brownish intermingled with ash-gray and a little 

 red; branchlets slender, with intemodes of medixim length, dark pinkish-red mingled 

 with green, smooth, glabrous, with numerous conspicuous, small, raised, russet-colored 

 lenticels. 



Leaves fall late in the season, six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, variable 

 in position, ovate-lanceolate, thin, leathery; upper surface dull, dark green, smooth; lower 

 surface olive-green; margin sharply and often doubly serrate, glandtJar; petiole three- 

 eighths inch long, stout, glandless or with one to three small, globose glands usually at 

 the base of the leaf. 



Flower-buds large, long, conical, plump, pubescent, conspicuous, usually free; flowers 

 appear in mid-season, light pink changing to darker red; pedicels thick, glabrous, green; 

 calyx-tube red, yeUowish-green within, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes obtuse, glabrous, 

 within, heavily pubescent without; petals oval, entire, red at the base; filaments shorter 

 than the petals; pistil pubescent, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in early mid-season; two and one-fourth inches long, two inches wide, 

 pointed-oval, compressed, with halves equal; cavity shallow, flaring, with tender skin; 

 suture shallow; apex a characteristically long, straight tip; color pale white or greenish- 

 white occasionally with a bright red blush but mostly with dull motthngs; pubescence 

 medium in amount; skin thick, tough; flesh white, scarcely stained at the pit, very juicy, 

 sweet, tender and melting, high-flavored; very good in quality; stone free, one and five- 

 sixteenths inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval to ovate, slightly wedge-shaped at 

 the base, plump, conspicuously winged, long-pointed, with pitted and grooved surfaces; 

 ventral suture narrow, furrowed; dorsal sutiu-e grooved. 



PEARSON 



I. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:105. 1901. 2. N. Y. Slate Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 21. 1912. 



Pearson is a newcomer among peaches which will bear watching if 

 it does as well in other parts of New York as on the Station grounds. It 



