. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THE PEACH. 475 SYNOPSIS OF ARRANGEMENT. The fruit of difEerent varieties' of the peach is marked with but few distinctive characters. A similarity in outline, tex- ture, color, and flavor, more nearly than exists in the apple, pear, and some other kinds, renders it necessary to resort to other points of distinction. The peach presents characters for this purpose not found in other fruits. 1. The Divisions are founded on the adherence or separation of
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THE PEACH. 475 SYNOPSIS OF ARRANGEMENT. The fruit of difEerent varieties' of the peach is marked with but few distinctive characters. A similarity in outline, tex- ture, color, and flavor, more nearly than exists in the apple, pear, and some other kinds, renders it necessary to resort to other points of distinction. The peach presents characters for this purpose not found in other fruits. 1. The Divisions are founded on the adherence or separation of the flesh from the stone, distinguishing clingstones and freestones; or, more prop- erly, on the firm or melt- \ , i ir Vi/^ / \ ing texture of the flesh, V // | A W A^ I \| indicated by the terms/a- ^4/,/ yV ^ ^\M/ J Al vies and melters. 2. The Divisions are sub- divided into Classes, em- bracing/«/<? or light-colored flesh and deep yellow flesh. 3. The Sections are found- ed on the glands of the leaves. Section I. compre- hends those whose leaves are deeply and sharply serrate (or cut like saw-teeth), and having no glands (or gum-like minute knobs) at the base (Fig. 631). Section II. contains those whose leaves are crenate or serrulate (with shallower and more rounded teeth), and having globose glands (Fig. 632). Section III. includes all those whose leaves are crenate or serrulate, having reniform or kidney-shaped glands (Fig. 633). " The form of the glands," observes Lindley, "as well as their position, is perfectly distinct; they are fully developed in the month of May, and they continue to the last per- manent in their character, and are not affected by cultiva- tion. The globose glands are situated, one, two, or more on the foot-stalks, and one, two, or more on the tips otpoints of the serratures of the leaves. The reniform glands grow also on the foot-stalks of the leaves, but those on the leaves are placed unthin the serrature, connecting, as it were
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