The peaches of New York . nd bud for the variety — others say that itis surpassed by Crosby, Wager and other varieties of their type. Thetrees on the Station grounds tiurned out not to be true to name so thatwe can offer no data as to hardiness. Iron Mountain is a very late, white-fleshed, freestone peach well adapted for extending the commercial limitsfor this fruit in regions where fall frosts hold off sufficiently long for thefruit to ripen. The tree-characters are reported by most growers as verysatisfactory and the peaches serve very well for culinary purposes butare not sufficiently attr
The peaches of New York . nd bud for the variety — others say that itis surpassed by Crosby, Wager and other varieties of their type. Thetrees on the Station grounds tiurned out not to be true to name so thatwe can offer no data as to hardiness. Iron Mountain is a very late, white-fleshed, freestone peach well adapted for extending the commercial limitsfor this fruit in regions where fall frosts hold off sufficiently long for thefruit to ripen. The tree-characters are reported by most growers as verysatisfactory and the peaches serve very well for culinary purposes butare not sufficiently attractive for a dessert fruit though the quality isexcellent. There seem to be two varieties, much alike in fruit, passingunder this name; one is large-flowered, the other small-flowered. Thisvariety might well be planted in New York for some markets; as, forexample, near towns and cities where it is desirable to extend the localmarket as late as possible. Iron Mountain seems to have originated in New Jersey about a ^^^^1^. THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 233 quarter-century ago t)ut nothing is known of its parentage or by whom variety was introduced by J. H. Lindley, Whitehouse, New Jersey. Itwas put on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1909. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped not always productive; trunkthick; branches smooth, dark ash-gray mingled with reddish-brown; branchlets mediumto slender, with intemodes of medium length, greenish-brown, smooth, glabrous, withnumerous small, raised lenticels. Leaves six inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upward and recurved,oval to obovate-lanceolate, medium in thickness, leathery; upper surface dark green,smooth; lower surface light green, with a prominent midrib; margin glandular, finelyserrate; petiole three-eighths inch long, with one to six reniform glands of medium size,usually on the petiole; flower-buds meditmi to small, conical, free; season of bloom late;flowers small. Fru
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