The peaches of New York . mes semi-free and Old-mixon Free often clings more or less, the two are often confused inorchards and markets. Both of these Oldmixons, as those who live in regionswhere cold and frost do frequent damage should know, are as hardy in woodand bud as any of the white-fleshed varieties. The blossoms of both, too,appear in late mid-season, thereby often escaping frosts. The trees ofOldmixon Free, like those of Oldmixon Cling, have the fault of beingtinproductive. Oldmixon Free is supposed to be an American seedling of OldmixonCling, a fruit for the introduction of which we
The peaches of New York . mes semi-free and Old-mixon Free often clings more or less, the two are often confused inorchards and markets. Both of these Oldmixons, as those who live in regionswhere cold and frost do frequent damage should know, are as hardy in woodand bud as any of the white-fleshed varieties. The blossoms of both, too,appear in late mid-season, thereby often escaping frosts. The trees ofOldmixon Free, like those of Oldmixon Cling, have the fault of beingtinproductive. Oldmixon Free is supposed to be an American seedling of OldmixonCling, a fruit for the introduction of which we are indebted to Sir JohnOldmixon of early colonial fame. At the Convention of Fruit-Growersheld in 1848, Oldmixon Free was placed on the hst of recommended 1856 it appeared in the fruit-list of the American Pomological Societywhere it still remains. Tree very large, vigorous, upright to spreading, hardy, rather unproductive; trunkthick, smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown tinged with light ash-gray;. OLDMIXON FREE THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 257 branchlets of medium thickness and length, with tendency to rebranch, dark, deep redintermingled with olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous, numerous, raisedlenticels. Leaves six and seven-eighths inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, curleddownward or flattened, oval to obovate-lanceolate, leathery, dull, dark green, smooth;lower surface grayish-green; apex acuminate; margins finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to four smaU, globoseglands variable in color and position. Flower-buds half-hardy, conical to pointed, plump, pubescent, free; blossoms appearin mid-season; flowers three-fourths inch across, pale pink near the center becoming darkerpink at the outside, often in twos; pedicels very short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green at the base, greenish-yellow within, obconic; calyx-lobes short, obtuse, glabrouswith
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