264 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



RED CHEEK MELOCOTON. 



I. Prince Pom. Man. 2:31, 32. 1832. z. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 492. 1845. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Cat. 32. 1867. 



Red Cheek Malacolan. 4. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 225. 1817. 5. Ploy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 

 186. 1846. 



Early Yellow Malacatune. 6j Kenrick Am. Orch. 220. 1832. 



Yellow or R'd Cheek Malacatune. 7. Ibid. 225. 1832. 



Hogg's Malacatune. 8. Ibid. 190. 1841. 



Red Cheek. 9. Elliott Fr. Book 288. 1854. lo. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:223, 224. 1899. 11. BuSd- 

 Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:354. I903- 12. Fulton Peach Cult. 195, 196. 1908. 13. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Cat. 39. 1909. 



Malacatune. 14. Hooper W. Fr. Book 225. 1857. 



For nearly a century, beginning soon after the Revolutionary War, 

 Red Cheek Melocoton had few rivals among yellow-fleshed, freestone 

 peaches. Even yet it is surpassed in quality only by members of the 

 Crawford family of which, by the way, it is supposed to be the immediate 

 ancestor — certainly all Crawford-like peaches resemble it in both fruit 

 and tree-characters. Lack of vigor and unproductiveness have driven 

 Red Cheek Melocoton from common cultivation — indeed it is now almost 

 impossible to obtain the trees. We give the variety attention in The 

 Peaches of New York, not because of present worth, but because of the 

 prominent part it has played in the peach-industry of the country in the 

 past. The color-plate is an admirable reproduction of this old peach 

 though possibly the fruits run a little larger than in the illustration. 

 The derivation of " Melocoton," so often used in this text, is given on 

 page 51. 



Red Cheek Melocoton is an American seedling which, according to 

 William Prince, sprang from a bud of a stock on which Lemon Cling had 

 been grafted, at the Prince farm, Flushing, New York. The Princes 

 were so impressed with the seedling that they propagated it, giving it the 

 name Red Cheek Malacatune, the name Malacatune at that time being 

 given to all yellow peaches having little red. The discovery of the variety 

 in the Prince orchards dates back considerably over one himdred years. 

 From Red Cheek Melocoton the Crawfords and . several other notable 

 peaches are said to have come. In 1867 the American Pomological Society 

 placed this variety in its catalog as Red Cheek Melocoton but in 1909 

 shortened the name to Red Cheek. We prefer to preserve the old name. 



Tree medium in size, vigorous, upright-spreading, lacking in productiveness; trunk 

 intermediate in thickness and smoothness; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown mingled 



