. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 179. Waddell. (xy2) mercial sort. Its chief competitor is Carman, compared with which the fruit ripens a few days earlier; is handsomer, in color at least, the two being very similar in size and shape; is of rather finer texture of flesh, better flav- ored; and is a better shipper. The variety has not been nearly so widely nor so generally planted as the better-known Carman, but it has been a greater factor in the success of a score or more of the big commercial peach- orchards. North and South, of the last few years. It is a particularly ple
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 179. Waddell. (xy2) mercial sort. Its chief competitor is Carman, compared with which the fruit ripens a few days earlier; is handsomer, in color at least, the two being very similar in size and shape; is of rather finer texture of flesh, better flav- ored; and is a better shipper. The variety has not been nearly so widely nor so generally planted as the better-known Carman, but it has been a greater factor in the success of a score or more of the big commercial peach- orchards. North and South, of the last few years. It is a particularly pleasing peach, and ought to be considered for every commercial plantation where a variety of its season is wanted. Waddell is a chance seedling found by William Waddell, Griffin, Georgia, about 1890. Tree medium in size, vigorous, spreading, with the lower branches inclined to droop, hardy, productive. Leaves 6 inches long, 1% inches wide, obovate-lance- olate, leathery; margin finely serrate; teeth tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole ^ inch long, with 1-4 small, globose, reddish-brown glands. Flowers mid- season, 1% inches across, red becoming pale pink, in clusters of twos. Fruit early midseason; 2*4 inches in diameter, round-oval, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity deep, abrupt, with tender skin, tinged with pink; suture shallow, deepening toward the apex and extending beyond; apex rounded, with a small, mucronate tip; color creamy-white, blushed with red and with dull splashes of darker red; pubescence thick; skin tough, separates from the pulp; flesh white, stained with pink near the pit, juicy, stringy, firm, sweet but sprightly, aromatic; very good in quality; stone semi- free to free, ovate; ventral suture deeply grooved along the sides, faintly winged. WAGER. Fig. 180. Hardiness, productive- ness, and early bearing are the outstanding characters of Wager that give it a high place in the peach-list. The fruit is a yellow-fleshed freestone, none too attractive i
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