The peaches of New York . ressed; blossoms open verylate; flowers three-fourths inch across, dark pink; pedicels short, glabrous, pale green;calyx-tube dull, dotted reddish-green, orange-red within, campanulate, glabrous; cah-x-lobes short, broad, obtuse, glabrous within, heavily pubescent without; petals roundish-ovate, notched near the base, tapering to short, narrow, white claws; filaments one-fourthinch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent toward the base, equal to thfestamens in legth. Fruit matures in mid-season; about two and one-fourth inches in diameter, roundish-cord
The peaches of New York . ressed; blossoms open verylate; flowers three-fourths inch across, dark pink; pedicels short, glabrous, pale green;calyx-tube dull, dotted reddish-green, orange-red within, campanulate, glabrous; cah-x-lobes short, broad, obtuse, glabrous within, heavily pubescent without; petals roundish-ovate, notched near the base, tapering to short, narrow, white claws; filaments one-fourthinch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil pubescent toward the base, equal to thfestamens in legth. Fruit matures in mid-season; about two and one-fourth inches in diameter, roundish-cordate to somewhat oval, very slightly compressed, with nearly equal halves, bulgednear the apex; cavity wide, abrupt or flaring, often tinged with red and with tender skin-suture variable in depth, extending more than half-way around; apex roundish, with aprolonged, recurved, mamelon tip; color orange-yellow, with specks and splashes of redblushed with darker red; pubescence thick, short, variable in coarseness; skin tough,.
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