272 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



ductive but unfortunately ripen their crop so late in New York that the 

 variety cannot be depended upon. Early freezes often destroy the fruit 

 and cold, wet weather usually hinders maturity so much that the peaches 

 are seldom at their best in this State. Possibly no other peach is more 

 widely grown than Salwey. It is a standard sort in France, England and 

 in peach-regions in America from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from 

 Canada to the Gulf. This uncommon adaptability to diverse soils and 

 climates ought to make it a valuable sort in peach-breeding. It has the 

 reputation of coming true to seed but we do not find that many varieties 

 have come from it. 



The history of Salwey is not clear. Pomologists generally credit 

 Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, with being the originator and 

 introducer of the variety. It is known that Rivers grew it on his groimds 

 but it is doubtful if he originated it. Other accounts say that it was 

 raised in 1844 by Colonel Salwey, Egham Park, Surrey, England, from 

 the seed of an Italian peach. Some say that a Charles Turner, Slough, 

 England, brought the Italian peach seed from Florence, Italy, while others 

 state that Turner introduced the new peach. The variety has long been 

 known in America as Salway but Colonel Salwey, after whom the peach was 

 named, spelled his name with an " e " and the correction is made in this 

 text. In 1875 the American Pomological Society added this peach to its 

 list of recommended fruits under the name Salway. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading, becoming drooping, dense-topped, 

 hardy, very productive; trunk thick, smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown 

 mingled with very light ash-gray; branchlets slender, very long, with a tendency to rebranch 

 near the tips; intemodes dull pinkish-red with but little if any green, glossy, smooth, 

 glabrous, with numerous raised lenticels. 



Leaves seven inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded upward and 

 recurled, oval to ovate-lanceolate, leathery; apex aciuninate; upper surface dark, dull 

 green, smooth, becoming rugose near the midrib; margin finely serrate, tipped with 

 reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to six small, 

 globose and reniform glands variable in color and position. 



Flower-buds hardy, conical or pointed, pubescent, appressed or partly free; blossoms 

 appear in mid-season ; flowers seven-eighth? inch across, white at the center of the petals, 

 becoming pink near the margins; pedicels very short, nearly sessile, thick; calyx-tube 

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

 acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals round, broadly oval, widely notched 

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

 inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent, longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures very late; two and nine-sixteenths inches long, two and one-half inches 



