. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 172 GEORGE IV GOVERNOR HOGG cavity deep, medium to wide, contracted around the sides, flaring, often mottled with red ; suture medium to deep, extending beyond tiie tip ; apex niueronate, mamelon; color greenish-white clianging to creamy- white, with a dull or lively red blush in which are intermingled a few splashes of duller red ; pubescence coarse, long, thick; skin thick, tough, clings to the pulp; flesh white, stained with re<l near the pit. juicy, stringy, tender, sweet but sprightly, pleasantly flavored ; good "in ([uality; sto
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 172 GEORGE IV GOVERNOR HOGG cavity deep, medium to wide, contracted around the sides, flaring, often mottled with red ; suture medium to deep, extending beyond tiie tip ; apex niueronate, mamelon; color greenish-white clianging to creamy- white, with a dull or lively red blush in which are intermingled a few splashes of duller red ; pubescence coarse, long, thick; skin thick, tough, clings to the pulp; flesh white, stained with re<l near the pit. juicy, stringy, tender, sweet but sprightly, pleasantly flavored ; good "in ([uality; stone clinging, bulged on one side, broadly oval to ovate, flattened, short-pointed at the apex, with pitted surfaces. GEORGE IV. Once one of the mainstays of Ainericiin peach-growing, George IV is now of but historical interest. It was one of the first named American peaches, and had the honor of being placed on the recommended list of fruits at the first meeting, in 1848, of the National Convention of Fruit-Growers, an organization which became the American Po- mological Society. George IV is not worth planting now, and is described only that fmit- growers may note progress in the development of peaches. While little grown here, this old American peach is still widely grown in Europe. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, unpro- ductive. Leaves 7 inches long, IV^ inches wide, obovate- lanceolate, thick, leather}'; margin sharply serrate, red; petiole y2 inch long, glandless or with 1-3 small, globose, reddish-brown glands. Flowers midseason, pale pink, with white centers and edged with darker pink, 1 inch across. Fruit midseason; 2% inches in diameter, round- oblate, bulged near the apex; oblique, with unequal sides; cavitj' slightly contracted, deep, wide, abrupt, with tender skin ; suture shallow, becoming deeper at both apex and cavity and faintly showing beyond the tip ; apex rounded, with a mucronate tip ; color creamy- wliite, with a pink blush and mottlings of r
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