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Title: The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Hovey, C. M. (Charles Mason), 1810-1887
Subjects: Fruit Fruit
Publisher: Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown and Hovey
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Leaves.—Large, roundish-ovate, dull dark green above, pale be-neath, broadest in the middle, shortly pointed, strongly nerved, andobtusely serrated; petioles, short, about half an inch long, stout,reddish. Flowers.—Medium size; stamens and style nearly equal in length. fj^uiT.—Large, about one and three-quarters inches broad, and oneand five-eighths long: Form, roundish, regular, similar to the GreenGage, but depressed at each end, rather more broad than long; suture,shallow, with an indented apex: Skin, fair, green, becoming yellowishwhen ripe, mottled and dotted with brownish red and crimson aroundthe base, and covered with a thin whitish bloom: Stem, short, abouthalf an inch long, stout, and inserted in a very small cavity, withoutdepression: Flesh, yellow, thick, very melting, and adhering to thestone: Juice, abundant, rich, sugary, and perfectly luscious: Stone,small, roundish ovate, obtusely pointed, nearly smooth. Ripe the last of August and beginning ofSeptember. (481 #
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Frtrilr. jf Amerce a. :^iiT: cuuLiuGEo pyuruT^iTt; peach Licawn rroniNalur-e 6- CFi^omo IvJa^ by Vr Shar;. THE COOLIDGES FAVORITE PEACH. Coolidges Favorite. Kenricks American Orclmrdist, 1st Ed. One of the oldest, if not the best, of our numerous Americanseedhng peaches is the Coohdges Favorite. It has long been incultivation around Boston, in the neighborhood of which city itoriginated; and more recently it has found its way into all parts ofthe country, proving, wherever grown, one of the richest of its class,quite equal to the Grosse Mignonne,—to which it appears allied,—theacknowledged standard of European peaches. In general appearanceit resembles the latter variety; but it is scarcely so dark and richlycolored, and is rather more depressed in form; it also ripens a fewdays sooner. This superior peach was raised by the late Mr. Joshua Coohdge, ofWatertown, Mass., upwards of thirty years ago, though we cannotascertain the exact period. Mr. W. Kenrick first described it in hisw

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