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qviality; stone free, one and seven-sixteenths inches long, more than an inch wide, ovate, 

 broad at the base, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture very deeply grooved at the edges; 

 dorsal suture deeply grooved. 



YELLOW RARERIPE 



1. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 102. 1831. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 229. 1832. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 

 2:14,15. 1832. 4. Downing Fr. Treei ^ra. 493. 1845. 5. Elliott F/-. Soofe 280. 1854. 6. Am. Pom 

 Soc. Cat. 80. 1862. 7. Mich. Sla. Bui. 169:229. 1899. 8. Pulton Peach Cult. 193, 194. 1908. 



Marie Antoinette. 9. Kenrick Am. Orch. 187. 1841. 



Early Orange Peach. 10. Ploy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 187. 1846. 



Cutter's Yellow. 11. Hovey Fr. Am. 2:59, 60, PI. 1851. 



Rareripe Jaune.. 12. Mas Le Verger T. 21 5, 216, fig. 106. 1866-73. 



A century ago Yellow Rareripe was at the head of the list of yellow- 

 fleshed, freestone peaches — largest, handsomest, hardiest and best-flavored 

 of all. Even now in fruit- and tree-characters, with the single exception 

 of productiveness, Yellow Rareripe holds its own very well with the peaches 

 of its type and season. A glance at the color-plate shows the peach to be as 

 attractive as any in color and shape; the size is above the average and in 

 texture and flavor it is not often surpassed. Its fault is unproductive- 

 ness, to make up for which the trees usually bear regularly and come in 

 bearing early. The variety is now hardly worth planting commercially 

 in New York, being equalled by several yellow-fleshed peaches in all 

 characters and surpassed in productiveness by many, but, if the trees can 

 be obtained, it might find a welcome place in home orchards. Yellow Rare- 

 ripe seems still to have all of the vigor and vitality of the first trees, help- 

 ing thereby to furnish evidence that varieties do not run out. 



This is another American peach the origin of which is involved in so 

 much uncertainty that it is impossible to state where, when and by whom 

 produced. Prince claims to have discovered the original Yellow Rareripe 

 tree near Flushing, New York, over a hundred years ago. It was being 

 grown in the vicinity of Boston early in the Nineteenth Century where 

 it seems to have been first introduced by William Kenrick, Newton, Massa- 

 chusetts, under the name Yellow Red Rareripe. Occasionally another and 

 inferior peach, Yellow Melocoton, was substituted for Yellow Rareripe. 

 Hovey received peach-trees from Kenrick under the name Cutter's Yellow 

 which later proved to be Yellow Rareripe. Hovey retained the name 

 Cutter's Yellow, because it was briefer. The Marie Antoinette, men- 

 tioned by Kenrick in 1841", is without question Yellow Rareripe and has 

 been listed as synonymous by several authors. Yellow Rareripe was 

 placed in the American Pomological Society's fruit-catalog in 1862 where 



it has since remained as a recommended variety. 

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