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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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val to ovate-lanceolate, leathery; apex aciuninate; upper surface dark, dullgreen, smooth, becoming rugose near the midrib; margin finely serrate, tipped withreddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to six small,globose and reniform glands variable in color and position. Flower-buds hardy, conical or pointed, pubescent, appressed or partly free; blossomsappear in mid-season; flowers seven-eighth? inch across, white at the center of the petals,becoming pink near the margins; pedicels very short, nearly sessile, thick; calyx-tubereddish-green, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, narrow,acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals round, broadly oval, widely notchednear the base, tapering to long, narrow claws red at the base; filaments five-sixteenthsinch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent, longer than the stamens. Fruit matures very late; two and nine-sixteenths inches long, two and one-half inches
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SALWEY THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 273 wide, round-cordate, bulged near the apex, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity deep,abrupt, often splashed with red; suture shallow, o£ten extending beyond the tip; apexusually a small, elongated point; color greenish-yellow, usually with a brownish-redblush splashed dark red; pubescence short, thick, fine; skin thin, tough, adherent to thepulp; flesh golden-yellow, faintly tinged with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender,becomes dry with age, sweet, pleasantly flavored, aromatic; good to very good in quality;.stone free, one and one-half inches long, one and one-sixteenth inches wide, oval toroundish-oval, very plump, pointed at the base, with large pits and short grooves in thesurfaces; ventral suture narrow, deeply furrowed along the edges; dorsal suture winged,a narrow groove. SCHUMAKER I. Card. Mon. 22:276. 1880. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 155. 1880. 3. Card. Man. 25:111fig. 1883. 4. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 314, 315. 1889. 5. R. I. Sta.

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