. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 166 CHAIRS CHINESE CLING CHAIRS. Chair's Choice. Chairs is a se- lect fruit in the Crawford group, in its turn the most select of the several groups of peaches. The variety was at one time a standard late, ycllow-fieshed, freestone, market peach, competing in popularity with Late Crawford, over which it often held ascendency because less subject to brown-rot. The coming of the Elberta type has driven the Crawford group from the markets, and Chairs is now known only in collections where it will be long treasured "for its delectable fruits
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 166 CHAIRS CHINESE CLING CHAIRS. Chair's Choice. Chairs is a se- lect fruit in the Crawford group, in its turn the most select of the several groups of peaches. The variety was at one time a standard late, ycllow-fieshed, freestone, market peach, competing in popularity with Late Crawford, over which it often held ascendency because less subject to brown-rot. The coming of the Elberta type has driven the Crawford group from the markets, and Chairs is now known only in collections where it will be long treasured "for its delectable fruits. Unproduc- tiveness and capriciousness in soil and climate, faults of all Crawford-like peaches, are marked in Chairs. The variety originated about 1880 in the orchard of Franklin Chairs, Anne Arun- del County, Maryland. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, unpro- ductive; trunk stocky. Leaves o% inches long, 1^ inches wide, oval to obovate-lanceolate, thin; margin coarsely serrate, often in 2 series; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole M inch long, with 2-6 small, globose, greenish-yellow glands. Flowers late, dark pink fading toward the whitish centers, % inch across. Fruit late midseason ; 2% inches in diameter, round-oval, irregular, bulged beak-like along one side toward the apex, compressed, with unequal halves ; cavity deep, wide, flaring ; suture shallow, deepening toward the apex and extending slightly beyond ; apex roundish, with a small, recurved, mamelon tip ; color golden- yellow, blushed and splashed with dull red; pubescence short, fine; skin thin, tough, free; flesh yellow, faintly stained with red near the pit, juicy, stringj-, tender, subacid or sprightly, pleasantly flavored; very good in quality; stone free, large, broadly oval, bulged along one side, plump, with surfaces deeply pitted and with short grooves. CHAMPION. Fig. 157. Champion is rightly used as the standard to gauge the quality of all other white-fleshed peaches. The fruit
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