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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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derivation of Melocoton, so often used in this text, is given onpage 51. Red Cheek Melocoton is an American seedling which, according toWilliam Prince, sprang from a bud of a stock on which Lemon Cling hadbeen grafted, at the Prince farm, Flushing, New York. The Princeswere so impressed with the seedling that they propagated it, giving it thename Red Cheek Malacatune, the name Malacatune at that time beinggiven to all yellow peaches having little red. The discovery of the varietyin the Prince orchards dates back considerably over one himdred years.From Red Cheek Melocoton the Crawfords and. several other notablepeaches are said to have come. In 1867 the American Pomological Societyplaced this variety in its catalog as Red Cheek Melocoton but in 1909shortened the name to Red Cheek. We prefer to preserve the old name. Tree medium in size, vigorous, upright-spreading, lacking in productiveness; trunkintermediate in thickness and smoothness; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown mingled
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RED CHEEK MELOCOTON THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 265 with light ash-gray; branchlets thick, variable in length, with medium to long intemodes,deep, dark red interminglecl with green, glossy, roughened by the lenticels, glabrous,with a few smallish, inconspicuous lenticels which are raised toward the base. Leaves seven and one-fourth inches long, nearly two inches wide, variable in position,oval to obovate-lanceolate, mediiim in thickness, leathery, dark olive-green, smooth,becoming rugose toward the midrib; margin sharply serrate; petiole three-eighths inchlong, glandless or with one to three small, globose, alternate glands variable in color andin their position; flower-buds intermediate in size and length, conical or pointed, plump,free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers small. Fruit matiu-es in mid-season; two and one-fourth inches long, about two and one-half inches wide, roimdish-cordate, compressed, with halves nearly equal; cavity wide,deep, flaring or abrupt; suture shallow; a

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