. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Peach 485 II. PEACH GENUS AMYGDALUS LINN^US Species Amygdalus Persica Linnaeus HIS well-known fruit tree has become naturalized throughout the greater portion of the southern States, and is abundantly spontaneous in waste places and on roadsides in the middle and northern States. It is a broad-headed, low tree, attaining a height of about 7 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark of old trees is rough, scaly and d
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Peach 485 II. PEACH GENUS AMYGDALUS LINN^US Species Amygdalus Persica Linnaeus HIS well-known fruit tree has become naturalized throughout the greater portion of the southern States, and is abundantly spontaneous in waste places and on roadsides in the middle and northern States. It is a broad-headed, low tree, attaining a height of about 7 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark of old trees is rough, scaly and dark brown; the twigs are round, smooth, glossy green, changing to puipHsh and finally gray. The leaves are alternate, simple, elliptic to lanceolate or oblong, 8 to 10 cm. long, tapering toward each end, sometimes blunt at the base, sharply toothed, light green and shining above, paler beneath; the stout leaf-stalk is 5 to 10 mm. long. The flowers develop from scaly buds formed the previous sea- son at the axils of the leaves, expand be- fore the leaves, are few or many, usually pink and very fragrant; the calyx-tube is urn-shaped, its 5 lobes obovate, usually purplish; the 5 petals are spreading, 8 to 20 mm. long, rounded at the apex; stamens 20 to 30, the filaments slender and distinct, usually colored; the ovary is sessile, i-celled, and surmounted by a simple style terminated by a small stigma. The fruit is a soft, velvety drupe, subglobular, with a groove on one side, 4 to 10 cm. in diameter; the sweetish, acidulous, aromatic flesh is adherent to or free from the hard, long stone, which is elliptic or ovoid, somewhat compressed, pointed, deeply wrinkled and pitted externally, polished within; the seed is ahnond-like, aromatic, and shghtly bitter. The peach is a native of Asia. Long cultivation has developed numerous varieties as to size and shape of the fruit, color and taste of the flesh, and its free- dom from the stone, as well as to time of ripening. Ornamental forms,
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