The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . With the distinctions which we have here made, and which willalways be fully noted in our descriptions, in connection with our coloredplates, every observing pomologist or cultivator will soon be able toidentify, with perfect accuracy, any particular kind, and we may confi-dently hope that the confusion now existing in the nomenclature ofpeaches may, ere long, be cleared up. We now complete our account of the Early Crawford :— Leaves.—Rather large and
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . With the distinctions which we have here made, and which willalways be fully noted in our descriptions, in connection with our coloredplates, every observing pomologist or cultivator will soon be able toidentify, with perfect accuracy, any particular kind, and we may confi-dently hope that the confusion now existing in the nomenclature ofpeaches may, ere long, be cleared up. We now complete our account of the Early Crawford :— Leaves.—Rather large and long, crenated, with globose glands. Flowers.—Small. Fruit.—Large, about three inches broad, and three and a half long:Form, roundish oblong, compressed slightly on the sides, one half alittle laiger than the other, with a broad, deep cavity at the base, andnarrowing towards the apex; suture rather shallow, extending halfround, and terminating in a small prominent point: Skin, deep yellowin the shade, rather downy, broadly shaded with rich deep red in thesun, with some mottlings, and numerous small crimson dots, extendingto the s
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