The peaches of New York . parates fromthe pulp; flesh deep yellow, rayed with red near the pit, juicy, tender, pleasantly sprightly,highly flavored; very good in quality; stone free, one and one-half inches long, one inchwide, oval or ovate, bulged along one side, mediimi plump, with small, shallow pits in thesurfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the sides, medium in width, winged; dorsal suture grooved, slightly winged. EARLY YORK I. Kenrick Am. Orch. 220. 1832. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 475, 476. 1845. 3. Horticulturist2:399. .1847-48. 4. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 37, 38, 51. 1848. 5.
The peaches of New York . parates fromthe pulp; flesh deep yellow, rayed with red near the pit, juicy, tender, pleasantly sprightly,highly flavored; very good in quality; stone free, one and one-half inches long, one inchwide, oval or ovate, bulged along one side, mediimi plump, with small, shallow pits in thesurfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed along the sides, medium in width, winged; dorsal suture grooved, slightly winged. EARLY YORK I. Kenrick Am. Orch. 220. 1832. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 475, 476. 1845. 3. Horticulturist2:399. .1847-48. 4. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 37, 38, 51. 1848. 5. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:45, PI. , EJliott Fr. Book 273. 1854. 7. Hooper W. Fr. Book 221. 1857. 8. Mag. Hort. 23:518. hS^y. 9. Pom. 24, PI. 1862. 10. Hogg Fruit Man. 446. 1884. 11. Fulton Peach Cult. 184. 1908. Serrate Early York. 12. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 290 fig. 1849. 13. U. S. Pat. Of. Rpt. 334. 1856. York Precoce. 14. Mas Z,e Verger 7:115, 116, fig. 56. 1866-73. 5- Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:308, 310. EARLY CRAWFORD THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 207 Early York is entitled to a place among the leading varieties ofpeaches only because of the part it played in the beginning of the peach-industry in America. As the history which follows shows, it was one ofthe first named varieties to be grown in this country. It is of more thanpassing interest, too, because it is one of the few sorts with glandless fruits of Early York are insignificant, though the color-plate hardlydoes the variety justice, but the vigorous, healthy, compact trees havemuch to recommend them so that the variety might be used as a stepping-stone in improving tree-characters of peaches. No doubt several distinct varieties have been grown as Early York, for example, which originated with Prince at Flushing, NewYork, has probably been more often sold for Early York than any othersort. Early Purple, a very old peach of European origin, was introducedto America about the time Early York
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