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Aiken, i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 301. 1890. 



Listed as growing in Canada. 

 Ailsworth. i. Mich. Sta. Sp. Bui. 44:29. 1910. 



Ailsworth is a late, yellow-fleshed peach which originated near Benton Harbor, 

 Michigan. The fruit as it grows on the Station grounds is not attractive in color but is 

 pleasantly flavored. Tree vigorous, upright; leaves long; glands reniform; flowers small; 

 fruit above medium in size, roundish-cordate; skin heavily pubescent, golden yellow, with 

 a slightly mottled blush of red; flesh yellow, red at the pit, juicy, medium coarse, firm, 

 pleasingly subacid; quality good; pit free, oval, winged; ripens the last week in September. 

 Albatross, i. Thomas Guide Prat. 54. 1876. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 435. 1884. 

 3. Bvmyard Fruit Cat. 35. 1913-14. 



Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, grew Albatross from a stone of Princess 

 of Wales about 1870. Leaves glandless; flowers large; fruit very large, roundish; suture 

 distinct only at the apex; skin pale yellow, blushed with crimson and mottled with darker 

 crimson; flesh white, stained with red at the stone, juicy, melting; ripens the end of 

 September. 

 Albemarle, i. Langley Pomona 104, PI. XXXI fig. U. 1729. 



Skin yellowish-green overlaid with red; flesh vermilion about the stone, melting, 

 vinous; ripens the first week in August. 

 Alberge. i. Rea Flora 211. 1676. 2. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees. 220. 1817. 



Purple Alberge. 3. Langley Pomona 104, PI. XXX fig. V. 1729. 4. Lindley Guide 

 Orch. Card. 267. 1831. 



Yellow Alberge. 5. Miller Gard. Diet. 1752. 6. Prince Pom. Man. 1:182, 183. 

 1831. T. DawmngFr. Trees Am. 492,493. 1845. ^. Rural N.Y. 11:111. i860. 



Gelbe Pfirsche. 9. Sickler Teutsche Obst. 8:229-234, Tab. 12. 1797. 



Rother Aprikosenpfirsch. 10. Dochnahl Ftihr. Obstku?ide 3: 21&. 1858. 



Rossanne. 11. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:263, 264 fig., 265. 1879. 



Safranpfirsch. 12. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 413. 1889. 



Alberge is an old French sort, one of , the eariiest of the yellow-fleshed peaches. 

 Probably from this variety have spnmg the Melocotons and Yellow Rareripes of this 

 country. Rossanna, though very similar to Alberge, differs from it in having reniform 

 glands and in ripening about two weeks later. In some sections, especially around 

 Rochester, New York, Alberge is known as Barnard's Rareripe. The variety was placed 

 on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1862 but was dropped in 1891. 

 Tree moderate in growth; leaves crenate; glands globose; flowers small, rose-colored; fruit 

 medium in size, nearly globular; suture and cavity deep; skin yellow, almost entirely 

 covered with deep red or purple; flesh deep yellow, red near the stone, melting, juicy, 

 vinous; of second quality; pit large, oval, terminating in a short point, brownish-red, free; 

 ripens in the middle of August. 

 Albert, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 32. 1883. 



Early Albert. 2. Gard. Chron. 1025. 1861. 3. Mag. Hort. 29:53. 1863. 4. Mas 

 Le Verger 7:103. 104, fig. 50. 1866-73. 5- ^w. Pom. Soc. Cat. 30. 1877. 



Albert was raised by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, from a pit of Grosse 



