. Annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations .... Agricultural experiment stations -- United States; Agriculture -- United States. 400 REPORT OF OFFICE f)F EXPERIMENT CLASSIFICATION. In a special report on peach culture in the extreme Southwest by G. Onderdonk, and published by this Department in 1887," peaches are classified into five races, viz: (1) Persian, (2) Northern Chinese, (3) Spanish, (4) Southern Chinese, (5) Peen-to (fig. 8), these geograph- ical names representing the parts of the world in which the race was supposed to have originated or to have reached it
. Annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations .... Agricultural experiment stations -- United States; Agriculture -- United States. 400 REPORT OF OFFICE f)F EXPERIMENT CLASSIFICATION. In a special report on peach culture in the extreme Southwest by G. Onderdonk, and published by this Department in 1887," peaches are classified into five races, viz: (1) Persian, (2) Northern Chinese, (3) Spanish, (4) Southern Chinese, (5) Peen-to (fig. 8), these geograph- ical names representing the parts of the world in which the race was supposed to have originated or to have reached its greatest develop- ment. R. H. Price, of the Texas Exoeriment Station, practically adopts this classifi- cation,'' giving de- (^\ if'/«,"5i\% ^')l /??///(( \>% ^^V scriptions and illus- trations of a large number of varieties belonging to each of these different races. In the northern Fig. Seeds of different types of peaches: a, Peen-to; 6, South i i i £ i, Chinese (Honey); c, Spanish or Indian (Texas); d, North China pcach belt of the (Chinese Cling); e, Persian (Old Mixon Free). United States varie- ties belonging to the Persian race are chiefly grown, while in the extreme soutli of the United States varieties of the Peen-to race are the most successful. Between these two extremes the South China, Spanish, and North China races succeed. The following descriptions of the different races, largely taken from Price's account, will serve to point out the difl'crences between them, though a large number of varieties of peaches can not be referred with certainty to any one of the races here given. 1. PEEN-TO (PRUNUS PLATYCARPA). Varieties of this group (figs. 8a, 9) can be successfully culti- vated only in su})tropical climates, succeeding best in tins coimtry in the States of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the coast regions of Texas. The Peen-to variety, which is the parent of this race in America, was first grown in the South by P. J. Berck-. ma
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