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Title: The peaches of New York
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hedrick, U. P Howe, G. H. (George Henry), b. 1888 New York State Agricultural Experiment Station New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture Herndon/Vehling Collection. fmo
Subjects: Peach Fruit-culture
Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, printers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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RIVERS THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 267 exotic peaches which are now and then planted in this country but all arepassing out so rapidly that we shall soon be standing on a basis in peach-growing which is wholly American. Earliness and high quality of fruitkeep Rivers alive in private places in America. No one would think ofplanting it in a commercial orchard because of its small fruit, tender skinand flesh which show every bruise, and its susceptibility to brown-rot.It is a white-fleshed freestone, tender, juicy and with an exceedingly rich,sugary flavor with a savoring smack of the nectarine. This variety standsalmost alone in beauty of flesh which is white to the stone, translucentand more or less mottled and interspersed with white veins. At its bestthe fruits are rather large and quite handsome as they grow in America,but even so they are but a shadow of the peach described imder this namein Eviropean fruit-books. The trees are fairly satisfactory in all essentialcharacters. Rivers ori

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