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widely grown and is everywhere esteemed as a commercial sort. Its chief 

 competitor is Carman, compared with which the fruit differs in ripening 

 a few days early; is handsomer, in color at least, the two, as the color- 

 plates show, being very similar in size and shape; is of rather finer texture 

 of flesh and is better flavored; and, lastly, according to most reports, 

 Waddell is a better shipper than Carman. The variety has not been nearly 

 as widely nor as generally planted as the better-known Carman but we are 

 of the opinion that it has been a greater factor in the success of a score or 

 more of the big commercial peach-orchards. North and South, of the last 

 few years. It is a particularly pleasing peach in New York and ought to 

 be considered for every commercial plantation where a variety of its 

 season is wanted to precede or to compete with Carman. 



Waddell is a chance seedling found by William WaddeU, Griffin, 

 Georgia. The variety was introduced by J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, 

 Connecticut. The American Pomological Society added Waddell to its 

 fruit-list in 1909. 



Tree medium in size, vigorous, upright becoming spreading and with the lower 

 branches inclined to droop, hardy, productive; trunk thick, smooth; branches stocky, 

 smooth, reddish-brown tinged with light ash-gray; branchlets long, inclined to rebranch, 

 dark pinkish-red overspfead with green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with nimierous con- 

 spicuous, raised lenticels variable in size. 



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

 downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dull, dark green, smooth; 

 lower surface gra3dsh-green; apex acimiinate; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish- 

 brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to four small, globose, reddish- 

 brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds hardy, conical or pointed, pubescent, usually appressed; blossoms appear 

 in mid-season; flowers one and three-fourths inches across, red becoming pale pink, in 

 clusters of twos; pedicels short, slender, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green at the 

 base, greenish-yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, glabrous 

 within, pubescent without; petals oval, crenate, irregular in outline near the base, tapering 

 to claws with reddish base; filaments seven-sixteenths inch long, shorter than the petals; 

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



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

 wide, oval to roundish-oval, compressed, bulged on one side, with unequal halves; cavity 

 deep, abrupt, with tender skin, tinged with pink; suture shallow, deepening toward the 

 apex and extending beyond; apex roundish, with a small, mucronate tip; color creamy- 

 white, blushed with red and with a few dull splashes of darker red ; pubescence thick ■ skin 

 tough, separates from the pulp; flesh white, stained with pink near the pit, juicy, stringy 

 firm but tender, sweet but sprightly, aromatic; very good in quality; stone semi-free to 



