. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 155. Captain Ede. (XVa) orous, heavy bearers; and the crop is uniform and always fair, smooth, without culls, ships well, and is in demand in the markets either for dessert or culinary purposes. The peaches are beautiful, and have a rich flavor, with a distinct smack of the almond. Captain Ede ripens with Early Crawford, a week or ten days before Elberta. The tree can hardly be dis- tinguished from that of Elberta. The variety originated in 1870 as a seedling in the door- yard of Captain Henry Ede, Cobden, Illinois. Tree large, vigorous, upri
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 155. Captain Ede. (XVa) orous, heavy bearers; and the crop is uniform and always fair, smooth, without culls, ships well, and is in demand in the markets either for dessert or culinary purposes. The peaches are beautiful, and have a rich flavor, with a distinct smack of the almond. Captain Ede ripens with Early Crawford, a week or ten days before Elberta. The tree can hardly be dis- tinguished from that of Elberta. The variety originated in 1870 as a seedling in the door- yard of Captain Henry Ede, Cobden, Illinois. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, not always productive. Leaves 5% inches long, 1% inches wide, folded upward, oval to obovate-lanceolate; margin finely serrate ; teeth tipped with dark red glands ; petiole \i inch long, with 2-6 reniform, greenish-j-ellow glands. Blossoms very late, % inch across, dark pink. Fruit midseason; about 2% inches in diameter, round-cordate, compressed, bulged near the apex; cavity wide, abrupt or flaring, often tinged with red and with tender skin ; suture extending more than half-way around; apex round, with a prolonged, recurved, mamelon tip ; color orange-j-ellow, with specks and splashes of red, blushed with darker red; pubescence thick, short, variable in coarseness; skin tough, adherent to the pulp; flesh yellow, stained red at the pit, dry, stringj', tender, meaty, strongly aromatic, pleasantly flavored; good in quality; stone free, oval, bulged along the ventral suture with pitted surfaces. CARMAN. Fig. 156. Among many white- fleshed peaches, few hold a more conspicuous place than Carman. Its chief asset is a con- stitution which enables it to withstand trj-ing climates, North and South, and to accommo- date itself to a great variety of soils. While. 156. Carman. (XVa) of but medium size, the peaches are most pleasing in appearance; the color is a brilliant red splashed with darker red on a creamy- white background; the shape is nearly round, and its tr
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