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ending in a mamelon tip at the apex; suture distinct; skin tender, heavily pubescent, yellow, 

 marbled and striped with ptirple on a deep carmine blush; flesh stained at the pit, melting, 

 very juicy, sprightly; stone free, large, plump; ripens at the end of August. 

 Comice de Bourbourg. i. Brehaut Peach Pruner 173. 1866. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 

 6:101, 102 fig. 1879. 



A seedling from Bourbourg, Nord, France, first fruiting about 1850. Glands small, 

 both reniform and globose; flowers of mediimi size; fruit large, roundish-oval, distinctly 

 sutured; skin tender, light yellow, streaked with carmine; flesh white, melting, juicy, tinged 

 about the pit, sprightly; stone free; ripens the middle of September. 

 Compton Pure Gold. i. III. Hort. Soc. Rpt. tj. 1893. 



Exhibited from Illinois at the World's Fair, in 1893. 

 Comte d'Aasembourg. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:186. 1883. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Comte de Neperg. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1883. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Comtesse de Hainaut. i. Ann. Pom. Beige 6:79, 80, PI. 1858. 



Of Belgian origin, being a seedling of Early Purple found near the Royal Chateau 

 at Laeken. Flowers large; fruit large, roundish; suttire distinct but not deep; skin clear 

 yellow; flesh yellowish-white except at the pit; stone large, free; ripens the first half of 

 September. 



Comtesse de Montijo. i. Thomas Guide Prat. 53. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 

 524. 1906. 



Obtained about 1848 by a gardener, Gauthier, in Paris, France. Tree vigorous, pro- 

 ductive; glands very small, globose; flowers of meditmi size; fruit large, roundish; skin 

 creamy-white, with a blush, often streaked; flesh melting, sprightly; ripens the middle of 

 September. 

 Con Cling, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1873. 



Con Cling appeared on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society from 1873 

 imtil 1883 without a description. Recommended for Oregon. 



Condor, i. Jour. Hort. N. S. 28:470. 1875. 2. Lauche Ergdnzung'iband 701 fig., 702. 

 1883. 



A large and beautiful seedling of Early Silver. Tree vigorous, productive; glands 

 reniform; flowers of medium size; fruit very large, globular, halves equal, distinctly sutured; 

 skin greenish-yellow, blushed with pale red; flesh white, tinged at the stone, juicy, melting; 

 stone oval, truncate at the base; ripens in August. 



Congress, i. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820. 2. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 95. 1831. 

 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:27. 1832. 4. Carri^re Var. PCxhers 66, 67. 1867. 



BSguine de Termondef S- Thomas Gm«c!^ Prat. 21, 215. 1876. 



First cultivated by Alfred Livingston, Westchester County, New York. Leaves with 

 reniform glands; flowers of medium size; fruit large, oval, pale yellow, blushed with red; 

 clingstone; ripens in September. 

 Conkling. i. EUwanger & Barry Cat. 33. 1879. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1909. 



EM. Conkling, Parma Corners, New York, introduced this peach about 1877, having 



