. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. FLORIDA GEM GENERAL LEE 171 firm, tender, sweet or mildly subacid, pleasantly flavored; very good in quality ; stone free, ovate, plump, flattened near the base with pitted surfaces. FLORIDA GEM. Florida Gem is rated by peach-growers in Florida as one of the best seedlings of Honey for home and com- mercial purposes. Its ripening date is from a week to ten days earlier than Honey, the crops coming on the markets in Florida the first week in July. The peaches, besides being earlier, are firmer and ship rather better than those of its well-know
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. FLORIDA GEM GENERAL LEE 171 firm, tender, sweet or mildly subacid, pleasantly flavored; very good in quality ; stone free, ovate, plump, flattened near the base with pitted surfaces. FLORIDA GEM. Florida Gem is rated by peach-growers in Florida as one of the best seedlings of Honey for home and com- mercial purposes. Its ripening date is from a week to ten days earlier than Honey, the crops coming on the markets in Florida the first week in July. The peaches, besides being earlier, are firmer and ship rather better than those of its well-known parent. The variety seems to have been first described in a report to the Florida Station in 1896, but when, where, and by whom originated does not appear. The fruit is described in southern catalogs as fol- lows: Fruit medium to large, round-oblong, pointed; suture indistinct, often wanting; apex conical, long, recur\ed ; skin fuzzy, thin, tough, pale j'ellow washed with deep red on the sunny side; flesh firm, juicy, white, red at the stone, sweet, agreeable; quality very good; stone free, o\al, red. FOSTER. Fig. 163. Foster is so s-milar to Late Crawford that even experienced grow- ers can hardly tell them apart. Those who. 163. Foster. (XVs) grow the two in the same orchard find the essential differences to be that Foster is a larger peach than Late Crawford, is more rotund, somewhat more flattened at the base, is a little earlier, possibly handsomer, and is even of better quality; the trees of Foster, however, are hardly so productive as those of either of the two unproductive Crawfords. This unproductiveness is the fault that keeps the variety in the background as a commercial peach. The variety is worth planting in home orchards. Foster originated about 1857 with J. T. Foster, Medford, Massachusetts. Tree very large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, variable in productiveness. Leaves 6 inches long, 1% inches wide, folded upward, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leatherj-;
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