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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ngth, heavily pubescent, conical, plump, usuallyfree; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers one and one-eighth inches across; pedicelsvery short, thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green, orange-colored within, cam-panulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petalsoval, broadly notched, tapering to claws red at the base; filaments three-eighths inchlong, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary, longer than the stamens. Fruit matures in mid-season; two and one-half inches long, two and one-fourth incheswide, oval, bulged near the apex, sometimes conical, compressed, with unequal halves;cavity flaring or abrupt, often mottled with red and with tender skin; suture a line,becoming deeper toward the tip; apex roundish or pointed, usually with a mamelon,recurved tip; color orange-yellow, blushed and mottled with dark red; pubescence thick,long and fine; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp; flesh yellow, faintly stained mth
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WAGER THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 287 red near the pit, meaty but tender, sweet, mild; good in quality; stone free, one andthree-eighths inches long, one inch wide, ovate, flattened near the base, with pitted sur-faces, marked with few short grooves; ventral suture deeply grooved along the sides, wide,furrowed; dorsal Future a wide, deep groove. WATERLOO I. Cult. & Count. Gent. 43:489. 1878. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 51. 1879. 3- Hogg FruitMan. 463. 1884. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 34. 1885. 5. Ibid. 22. 1897. 6. Garden 66:112. 1904.7. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:359. 1903. 8. Fulton Peach Cult. 173. 1908. 9. Waugh Am.Peach Orch. 209. 1913. Waterloo is without honor in its own country but is a standard peachin England. In spite of the fact that the variety originated within tenmiles of the Station grounds it is all but worthless here as it is in most partsof New York. Waterloo is an extra-early, white-fleshed, semi-cling peachvery similar to the better-known Canada. The faults that cond

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