. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 176. Reeves. (XVa) fleshed, freestone fruits, which are as hand- some as they are palatable. The peaches have two minor defects to keep them from perfec- tion: they are too irregular in shape, and some- times fall short in size. In texture of flesh, juiciness, taste, and aroma they are scarcely surpassed. The fault that condemns the va- riety is unproductiveness in the trees. To make up in some degree for unfruitfulness, the tree? are vigorous and more than usually hardy. Reeves is worthy of perpetuation for home orchards. This attractive pea
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 176. Reeves. (XVa) fleshed, freestone fruits, which are as hand- some as they are palatable. The peaches have two minor defects to keep them from perfec- tion: they are too irregular in shape, and some- times fall short in size. In texture of flesh, juiciness, taste, and aroma they are scarcely surpassed. The fault that condemns the va- riety is unproductiveness in the trees. To make up in some degree for unfruitfulness, the tree? are vigorous and more than usually hardy. Reeves is worthy of perpetuation for home orchards. This attractive peach came from a chance seedling found about 1840 by Samuel Reeves, Salem, New Jersey. Tree medium to large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, unproductive. Leaves 6% inches long, 1% inches wide, obovate-lanceolate; margin finely serrate; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole ^^ inch long, glandless or with 1-3 small, globose glands. Flowers late, 1 inch across, light and dark pink. Fruit mid- season; 2^ inches in diameter, round-cordate, com- pressed, with unequal halves; cavity often very deep, abrupt, the skin tender and often marked with red; suture shallow, sometimes extending beyond both cavity and tip : color deep yellow, blushed with dull red, striped, splashed and mottled with brighter red ; pubes- cence thick, long; skin thick, tough, separates from the pulp; flesh yellow, tinged with reii near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender and melting, pleasantly flavored, mild, sweet: very good in quality; stone free, oval, more or less bulged near the apex, sometimes winged along the veutral suture, with pitted surfaces. RIVERS. Early Rivers. Earliness and high quality of fruit keep Rivers alive in pri- vate places in America. No one would think of planting it in a commercial orchard because of its small fruits, which have tender skin and flesh showing every bruise, and its susceptibil- ity to brown-rot. The peach is a white-fleshed freestone, tender, juicy, with an exc
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