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attacked by brown-rot, stand shipment splendidly, a character which adds 

 to its value for early markets. Though often put down as a clingstone 

 it is, when well grown, a semi-cling and sometimes the stone is free. 



Triumph is one of several seedlings grown by J. D. Husted, Vineyard, 

 Georgia. It is supposed to be an offspring of Alexander. The date of 

 origin is unknown but references go back to 1895. Triiunph was placed 

 on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1899. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading, with lower branches drooping, 

 hardy, very productive; trunk intermediate in thickness and smoothness; branches 

 stocky, smooth, reddish-brown intermingled with very hght ash-gray; branchlets slender, 

 long, with intemodes of medium length, dark pinkish-red with some green, glossy, very 

 smooth, glabrous, with many conspicuous, small, raised lenticels. 



Leaves six inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide, flattened or curled down- 

 ward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin, leathery; upper surface duU, dark olive-green, 

 rugose near the midrib; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely and shallowly serrate, 

 tipped with reddish -brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one 

 to four very small, globose glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds hardy, small, short, pubescent, obtuse or pointed, plump, appressed 

 or free; blossoms unfold early; flowers one and five-eighths inches across, dark pink, 

 sometimes in twos; pedicels short, slender, glabrous, green; calyx^ube reddish-green at 

 the base, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, 

 glabrous within, pubescent without; petals broadly oval to ovate, widely notched near the 

 base, tapering to claws with reddish base; filaments seven-sixteenths inch long, shorter 

 than the petals; pistil pubescent near the base, equal in length to the stamens. 



Fruit matures early ; two inches long, two and one-eighth inches wide, roundish-oval, 

 compressed, with unequal sides; cavity deep, abrupt, with tender skin; suture shallow; 

 apex roundish, with a mamelon and recurved tip; color pale yellow overlaid with dark 

 red; pubescence thick and long; skin thin, adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, stained with 

 red near the pit, juicy, firm until fully ripe, sprightly; fair in quality; stone semi-free to 

 free when fully ripe, one and one-fourth inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, obovate, 

 flattened wedge-like at the base, bulged at one side near the apex, plump, with deeply 

 grooved surfaces ; ventral suture deeply grooved along the edges, furrowed ; dorsal suture 

 winged, deeply grooved, rather wide. 



TROTH 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 2,$. 1899. 2. Mich. Sta. Bui. i6g:228. 1899. 3. Am. Card. 24: i^iT,. 1903. 

 Troth's Early Rareripe. 4. Kenrick Am. Orch. 183. 1841. 



Troth's Early Red. 5. Elliott Fr. Book 304. 1859. 6. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 634. 1869. 

 Troth's Early. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 80. 1862. 8. Am. Jour. Hort. 3:341. 1868. 9. Pulton 

 Peach Cult. 183, 184. 1908. 



Troth, the standard early peach in the middle of the last century, is 

 now all but out of cultivation. It is still listed in a few nursery catalogs 



