. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. SELLERS CLING STEVENS 185 popular as a commercial variety to open the season, but for some reason peach-growers are not pleased with it—probably because of the small size of the peaches. For a peach of its season, Schumaker is remarkably free from brown-rot. This variety originated as a seed- ling with Michael Schumaker, Fairv'iew, Penn- sylvania, about 1870. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, becoming drooping, open-topped, productive. Leaves 6% inches long, li^ inches wide, obovate-lanceolate, leathery-; margin finely serrate; teeth t
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. SELLERS CLING STEVENS 185 popular as a commercial variety to open the season, but for some reason peach-growers are not pleased with it—probably because of the small size of the peaches. For a peach of its season, Schumaker is remarkably free from brown-rot. This variety originated as a seed- ling with Michael Schumaker, Fairv'iew, Penn- sylvania, about 1870. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, becoming drooping, open-topped, productive. Leaves 6% inches long, li^ inches wide, obovate-lanceolate, leathery-; margin finely serrate; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole V2 inch long, glandless or with 1-1 small, globose, reddish-brown glands. Flowers early ; 11^ inches across, pink. Fruit very early ; 2 inches in diam- eter, round, compressed, witli unequal halves; cavity deep, flaring; suture shallow; apex ending in a re- curved tip ; color creamy-white, heavily blushed and often mottled with red; pubescence short, thick; skin thin, tender, separates from the pulp when fully ripe; flesh white, very juicy, stringj-, tender, sweet, aromatic, highly flavored ; very good in quality; stone clinging, becorning semi-cling, oval, plump, inconspicuously winged, with corrugated surfaces. SELLERS CLING. Sellers Orange Cling. Canners in California recommend Sellers Cling as one of the best midsummer varieties for their trade. The variety finds favor with the growers because of the great productiveness of the trees. Although the product does not sell for so high a price as that of two or three other yellow-fleshed clingstones, the greater productiveness of the trees makes up for the difference in price. The peaches are handsome in color, uniform in size, and ripen at a favor- able period of the canning season. The va- rietj' originated on the ranch of S. A. Sellers, Contra Costa County, California, some time previous to 1889. Tree large, very vigorous, upright-spreading, one of the most productive of all peaches
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