288 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



Fruit matures very early; nearly two inches in diameter, roundish, with equal halves; 

 cavity deep wide flaring; suture shallow; apex depressed, with a recurved, mamelon 

 tip; color creamy-white, blushed and mottled with red; pubescence short, thick; skin thin, 

 adherent to the pulp; flesh greenish- white, juicy, stringy, tender and melting, sweet, mild, 

 fair to good in quality; stone semi-clinging, one and one-sixteenth inches long, three- 

 fourths inch wide, oval, plump, acutely pointed at the apex, with pitted surfaces; dorsal 

 suture sKghtly winging. 



WHEATLAND 



I. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 550. 1875-85. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 113. i88o. 3. Downing 

 Fr. Trees Am. yd h-pp. IT^. 1881. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 2,^. 1883. 5. Tei. 5to. 5m/. 39:815. 1896. 

 6. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:359. 1903- ?• Waugh Am. Peach Orch. 209. 1913. 



Wheatland is a large, yellow-fleshed, freestone peach of excellent 

 quality which ripens just before Late Crawford. Although the variety 

 originated in this State it is little grown here now, being somewhat more 

 popular westward in Michigan and very much grown in Colorado and 

 Utah. The fruit is about all that could be desired in New York but the 

 trees are so unproductive that the variety is nowhere grown in this region 

 with profit. The beauty and high quality of the fniit might make it 

 desirable for home orchards. 



Wheatland is a chance seedling found about 1870 on the grounds 

 of Daniel E. Rogers, Scottsville, New York. The variety was placed 

 on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1883. 



Tree medium to large, vigorous, upright-spreading, with the lower branches drooping 

 hardy, rather unproductive; trunk thick and smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish- 

 brown tinged with light ash-gray; branchlets long, with long intemodes, inclined to 

 rebranch, dark pinkish-red with but little green, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, 

 large and small, raised lenticels intermediate in nvunber. 



Leaves six and one-half inches long, one and three-fotirths inches wide, folded 

 upward and recurved downward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery; upper surface 

 dark green, rugose; lower surface grayish-green; margin finely serrate, tipped with 

 reddish-brown glands; petiole five-sixteenths inch long, with one to five small, globose 

 and reniform, reddish-brown glands variable in position. 



Flower-buds tender, medium to small, pubescent, conical or pointed, plirnip, usually 

 free; blossoms open late; flowers seven-eighths inch across, light pink becoming darker 

 along the edges; pedicels very short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green, orange- 

 colored within, campanulate; calyx-lobes narrow, acuminate, glabrous within, pubescent 

 without; petals ovate; filaments five-sixteenths inch long, equal to the petals in length- 

 pistil as long as the stamens, sometimes defective. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; large, roimd; suture shallow; apex a small, acute point; 

 color yellow, blushed and mottled with red; skin separates from the pulp; flesh j-ellow, 

 stained red around the pit, juicy, firm but tender, sweet, pleasantly flavored; good in 



