THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 43 1 



Orleance. i. ReaF^ora2io. 1676. 



" Orleance red peach is a fine fruit, and leaves the stone." 

 Orleans, i. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 158. 1898. 



Orleans is best known in Orleans County, New York, where it originated with Julius 

 Harris of Ridgeway. On the Station grounds the trees are not very productive. Trees 

 upright, slightly spreading, open ; leaves ntimerous, rugose at the midrib, slightly curled up ; 

 glands small and globose; flowers appear late, small; fruit large, roundish-oval to roundish- 

 conic, halves unequal, bulged at the apex; cavity deep; suture shallow; apex often tipped 

 with a mucronate point; skin tough, covered with thick pubescence, greenish-yellow, 

 becoming almost orange, slightly splashed with dull red forming a mottled blush; flesh 

 tinged with red about the pit, juicy, coarse, stringy, sweet, mild, high-flavored; very 

 good in quality; stone free, large, ovate, conspicuously winged; ripens the middle of 

 September. 

 Orman. i. Tex. Sta. Bui. 8:34. 1899. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 



Listed by the American Pomological Society as having originated in Texas. 

 Oro. I. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 263. 1892. 



Oro was brought to notice by C. S. Bell, Oroville, California. Glands reniform; 

 fruit large, oblate-conic; skin thin, tender, yellow, with a bright red blush; flesh reddish- 

 yellow, melting, juicy, vinous, subacid; freestone; ripens in California the last of September. 

 Ortiz Cling, i. Boonville Nur. Cat. 19. 1912. 



This clingstone ripens in September and attains the size of Elberta. It is excellent 

 for preserving. 

 Oscar. I. Greening Bros. Cat. 81. 1899. 



Oscar Black Prince. 2. Ont. Sta. Rpt. 43. 1899. 



This variety is from Greening Brothers, Monroe, Michigan. The fruit is much like 

 that of Alexander but darker in color and perhaps is a little better in quality; it ripens 

 about two weeks later than Alexander. 



Osceola, i. Mas Le Verger 7:233, 234, fig. 115. 1866-73. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 629. 1869. 



A peach of the Indian type which originated in Macon Cotmty, Georgia. Glands 

 reniform; flowers large; fruit of medium size, roundish, compressed at the ends; apex 

 tipped with a mamelon point; skin thick, golden-yellow, with a red cheek; flesh stained 

 with dull red at the pit, fibrous, sweet, pleasant; stone free, roundish-oval, pltimp; matures 

 late in September. 

 Osprey. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 455. 1884. 



Orfraie. 2. Thomas Guide Prat. 55, 222. 1876. 



Osprey originated with Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, about i860 from 

 a seed of Pitmaston Orange nectarine. Leaves with globose glands; flowers small; fruit 

 very large, oblate, distinctly sutured; skin creamy, with a crimson stain where exposed; 

 flesh tender, melting, deeply stained at the pit to which it clings, sprightly. 

 Ostrander Early, i. N. Y. Sta. Rpt. 15:290. 1897. 



This variety originated in Rochester, New York. The fruit resembles that of Early 

 Crawford but is ten days earlier. 



