Archive image from page 204 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 GREENSBORO HEATH CLING 173 serrate; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole inch long, glandless or with 1-5 reniform, reddish- brown glands. Blossoms midseason, medium in size, pale pink. Fruit early, 2 inches in diameter, oblong- oval, compressed, oblique; cavity deep, narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming deeper at the cavity; apex depressed, with a mucronate tip; color creamy-white, blushed with red ; pubescence short; skin thin, separates from the pu
Archive image from page 204 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 GREENSBORO HEATH CLING 173 serrate; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole inch long, glandless or with 1-5 reniform, reddish- brown glands. Blossoms midseason, medium in size, pale pink. Fruit early, 2 inches in diameter, oblong- oval, compressed, oblique; cavity deep, narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming deeper at the cavity; apex depressed, with a mucronate tip; color creamy-white, blushed with red ; pubescence short; skin thin, separates from the pulp ; flesh white, juicy, stringy, meaty ; good in quality; stone clinging, obovate, plump, strongly bulged on one side, conspicuously winged, pointed at the base, with the surfaces grooved and pitted. GREENSBORO. Fig. 165. Balsey. Greens- boro is one of the leading early, white-fleshed peaches. It takes high place because of its showy fruits and its large, vigorous, healthy, early-bearing, and prolific trees. In the last 165. Greensboro. (.XV2) character, in particular, Greensboro is almost supreme—year in and year out, its trees are fruitful. Possibly no other white-fleshed peach is adapted to a greater variety of soils than Greensboro—a quality which makes it suitable for wide variations in peach-regions. The peaches, while handsome, are in no way re- markable, the quality being rather inferior, so that it is the tree that gives Greensboro its standing. The variety is well thought of by fruit-dealers, because the fruits carry well and keep long. Possibly the peaches are less sus- ceptible to brown-rot than most other varieties of Greensboro's season, but to offset this ad- vantage there are many cracked pits and ac- companying malformed fruits. Picked green, the stone clings; picked at maturity, the flesh is free. Greensboro is a seedling of Connett grown by W. G. Balsey, Greensboro, North Carolina, about 1891. Tree very large, spreading, open-topped, hardy, very produ
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