THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 4OI 



Late Yellow Alberge is a very late, clingstone peach highly esteemed in southern 

 Ti'rance. At one time it was much grown in America but was supeiseded by Heath Cling. 

 Leaves with reniforai glands; flowers large; fruit of medium size, roundish-oval, distinctly 

 sutured; skin downy; flesh yeUow to the stone, very firm, juicy, sweet; matures in October. 

 Laura, i. Fla. Sta. Rpt. S:Sg. 1896. 2. Fla. Sta. Bui. 62:515. 1902. 



A seedling of Peento. Fruit very large, nearly round; flesh white, sweet, juicy; quality 

 excellent; clingstone; ripens about with Peento. 

 Laura Cling, i. Weber & Sons Cat. 19. 1906. 



Laura Cling is identical with Krummel except that it is a clingstone while Krummel is a 

 freestone. It originated in Missouri, according to H. J. Weber & Sons, Nursery, Missouri. 

 Laurenel. 1. Gard. Mon. 12:158. 1870. 



A seedling from Monroe, Ohio; said to be larger and earlier than Hale Early. 

 Laurent de Bavay. i. Carri^re Var. Peckers 75, 76. 1867. 



Probably of Belgian origin. Tree vigorous, a strong grower; glands globose; flowers 

 large; fruit very large, roundish, halves unequal; skin heavily pubescent, pale yeUow, 

 washed with deep red; flesh white, red at the stone, melting, juicy, sweet; stone large, oval, 

 free; ripens late in September. 

 Lawrence, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 52. 187 1. 



Introduced by W. K. Tipton, Jerusalem, Ohio, who says it is superior to Hale Early 

 in flavor and a week earlier. 

 Lawton. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 127. 1875. 



Raised by C. W. Lawton, Seattle, Washington, from a seed imported from England; 

 fruit very large and ripens early. 

 Leader, i. Burbank Cat. 1912-13. 



According to Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, California, Leader is of the Muir-Crawford 

 type ripening in California in July; freestone. 

 Leatherbury Late. i. Pa. Hart. Assoc. Rpt. 48. 1882. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Leatherland Late. i. A'^. Mex. Sta. Bui. 30:243. 1899. 



Listed by the New Mexico Station. 

 Lemon Cling, i. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820. 2. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 

 188. 1846. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 78. 1862. 



Large Yellow Pine Apple. 4. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 224. 1817. 



Kennedy Carolina. 5. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820. 



Kennedy Lemon Cling. 6. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 98. 183 1. 



Pine Apple Clingstone, y. HoSy Orch. Comp. i:Pl. 1841-42. 



Englischer Lackpfirsich. 8. T)oc)mah\Fiihr. Obstkunde y. 215. 1858. 



Pame Citron. 9. Leroy Diet. Pom,. 6:216. 1879. 



Lemon Cling dates back to before the Revolutionary War. From aU accounts it 

 originated in South Carolina, probably in Charleston. A number of seminal varieties, 

 all very similar to Lemon Cling, are cultivated; all of these some writers combine under the 

 name Lemon Cling. Robert Kennedy introduced the fruit into New York about 1800 

 where it became known as Kennedy's Carolina or Kennedy's Lemon Clingstone. The 

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