The peaches of New York . flattened at the base, plump, short-pointed, with pittedsurfaces marked by few grooves; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the edges, mediumin width, furrowed; dorsal suture deeply grooved. PALLAS I. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 55. 1885. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 1891. 3. ia. 5to. Bw/. 17:499. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:805. 1896. 5. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:239, 240. 1898. 6. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169 7. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:353. I903- 8. Fla. Sta. Bid. 73:150- I904- 9- Ala. 156:134. 1911. Pallas Honeydew. 10. Ohio Sta. Bui. 170:178. 1906. Pallas is about the
The peaches of New York . flattened at the base, plump, short-pointed, with pittedsurfaces marked by few grooves; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the edges, mediumin width, furrowed; dorsal suture deeply grooved. PALLAS I. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 55. 1885. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 1891. 3. ia. 5to. Bw/. 17:499. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:805. 1896. 5. Ga. Sta. Bui. 42:239, 240. 1898. 6. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169 7. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:353. I903- 8. Fla. Sta. Bid. 73:150- I904- 9- Ala. 156:134. 1911. Pallas Honeydew. 10. Ohio Sta. Bui. 170:178. 1906. Pallas is about the best of the several honey-flavored, beaked peachesthat have fruited on the Station grovinds. This is one of the sorts supposedto thrive only in warm climates but here, in a location none too favorablysituated as to climate, the trees are vigorous, appear to be hardy and differfrom northern varieties, so far as life events are concerned, only in holdingtheir leaves longer. The fruits run small and lack tmiformity in size,. PALLAS THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 259 faults that will not permit Pallas ever to become a commercial sort in NewYork. Moreover, the peaches are not attractive in appearance, sufferterribly from brown-rot and do not ship well — ftirther disqualificationsfor competition in commerce. In quality, especially, to those who havea taste for sweets, Pallas is almost unapproachable — so rich, sweet,aromatic and delicious as well to justify the sobriquet, Honeydew,frequently bestowed upon it. This variety might well be planted in everyhome orchard. Pallas is one of the many, seedlings of Honey and originated in 1878with L. E. Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia. In 1891 the American Pomolog-ical Society added Pallas to its list of fruits as a noteworthy variety forsouthern fruit-districts. Tree raediuin in vigor, upright-spreading, round-topped, productive; trunk rough;branches roughened by the lenticels, brownish intermingled with ash-gray and a littlered; branchlets slender,
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