. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 158. Climax. (XVa) CLIMAX. Fig. 158. Climax is a honey- sweet, freestone peach adapted only to the far South, where the fruits are large and at- tractive and the variety is a commercial sort. In the North, the peaches are small, unattrac- tive in color, drop badly, are disfigured by peach-scab, and have only honeyed sweetness to recommend them. Climax is a seedling of Honey, but neither the date of origin nor the name of the originator is known. The variety was introduced by G. L. Taber, Glen Saint Mary, Florida, in 1886. Tree small, vigorous
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 158. Climax. (XVa) CLIMAX. Fig. 158. Climax is a honey- sweet, freestone peach adapted only to the far South, where the fruits are large and at- tractive and the variety is a commercial sort. In the North, the peaches are small, unattrac- tive in color, drop badly, are disfigured by peach-scab, and have only honeyed sweetness to recommend them. Climax is a seedling of Honey, but neither the date of origin nor the name of the originator is known. The variety was introduced by G. L. Taber, Glen Saint Mary, Florida, in 1886. Tree small, vigorous, upright-spreading, round-topped, dense, productive. Leaves 6 inches long, 1% inches wide, flattened, lanceolate, thin, leather}-; margin bluntly serrate; teeth glandular; petiole i/^ inch long, slender, glandless or with 1-4 small, reniform glands usually at the base of the leaf. Flowers late, pale pink, 1 inch across. Fruit midseason, 2% inches in diameter, oval, slightly compressed, with unequal sides; cavity shallow, flaring, splashed with red ; suture shallow ; apex conic, with a long, swollen often recuned tip ; color creamy- white, occasionally with a blush or faint mottlings of red toward the base ; pubescence short, thick ; skin thin, adherent to the pulp ; flesh white, stained with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, melting, very sweet, mild; very good in quality; stone semi-free to free, oval, plump, bulged on one side, long-pointed at the apex, with pitted and grooved, reddish-brow-n surfaces. CONNETT. Connett Early. This variety is a seedling of the old Chinese Cling, which it much resembles. At its best, the peaches are about the most delicately colored of all grown. They are remarkable also for their small stones, which cling little or not at all. The tree is hardy and vigorous in the North, but is a shy bearer, for which reason it is little grown. In parts of the South, it is a rather general favorite and perhaps would be listed as a commercial sort, if it did n
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