Identifier: cu31924008492203 (find matches)
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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KENTUCKY (Nectarine)
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SUMMER SNOW (White Flowered) THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 83 stones. (2) That peach-trees produce nectarines by bud-variation andnectarine-trees Hkewise produce peaches, and that either the nectarines orpeaches so arising will come true to seed. (3) That either peach ornectarine-trees may produce individual fruits half-nectarine and half-peach. (4) A case is cited of a nectarine tree bearing a half-and-half fruitand subsequently a true peach. It must be noted that in all of the variations so far recorded thereare no intetmediate forms between the two fruits. The peach producedin these bud-variations is a peach and nothing but a peach; the nectarine,a nectarine and nothing but a nectarine. Even in those remarkablephenomena, of which several are recorded, in which the fruits are dividedinto halves or quarters, one or more segments being peach and one or morenectarine, there can be no mistake as to peach and nectarine in pubescence,color or flavor. The nectarine from the peach, thus becomes a

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