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red near the pit, meaty but tender, sweet, mild; good in quality; stone free, one and 

 three-eighths inches long, one inch wide, ovate, flattened near the base, with pitted sur- 

 faces, marked with few short grooves; ventral suture deeply grooved along the sides, wide, 

 furrowed; dorsal Future a wide, deep groove. 



WATERLOO 



I. Cult. & Count. Gent. 43:489. 1878. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 51. 1879. 3- Hogg Fruit 

 Man. 463. 1884. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 34. 1885. 5. Ibid. 22. 1897. 6. Garden 66:112. 1904. 

 7. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:359. 1903. 8. Fulton Peach Cult. 173. 1908. 9. Waugh Am. 

 Peach Orch. 209. 1913. 



Waterloo is without honor in its own country but is a standard peach 

 in England. In spite of the fact that the variety originated within ten 

 miles of the Station grounds it is all but worthless here as it is in most parts 

 of New York. Waterloo is an extra-early, white-fleshed, semi-cling peach 

 very similar to the better-known Canada. The faults that condemn it 

 are small size, poor quality, susceptibility to brown-rot and a long period 

 of ripening for the fruit and small size and unproductiveness in the tree. 

 It is given prominence in The Peaches of New York only because it is so 

 often noted in the horticultural press as a standard variety, an opinion, 

 no doubt, reflected in America from European publications. 



Waterloo was first grown by Henry Lisk, Waterloo, Seneca County, 

 New York, who brought it to notice in 1877. Thomas Rivers introduced 

 it into England where it has long been grown and esteemed for its earliness 

 and good quality. The American Pomological Society placed Waterloo 

 in its fruit-catalog in 1885, where it remained until 1891 when it was 

 dropped, but was replaced in 1897. 



Tree small, upright-spreading, sometimes productive; trunk smooth; branches stocky, 

 smooth, reddish-brown covered with light ash-gray; branchlets very long, rebranching, 

 with intemodes of medium length, dark pinkish-red mingled with green, glossy, smooth, 

 glabrous, with few large lenticels. 



Leaves six and one-fourth inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, flattened, 

 oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface duU, dark olive-green, smooth; lower 

 surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole 

 seven-sixteenths inch long, glandless or with one to four small, globose and reniform, 

 reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds half-hardy, obtuse or conical, plump, usually free, pubescent; flowers 

 appear in mid-season; blossoms one and one-half inches across, light pink, usually single; 

 pedicels very short, thick, green; cal3ni:-tube lemon-yellow within, campanulate, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes short, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals ovate, tapering to 

 claws with reddish base; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil equal 

 to the stamens in length. 



