The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-15

much flattened; skin white and mottled
with carmine; flesh white; flavor sweet,
with peculiar almond twang. 1t is adapt
ed to the northern part of the citrous
belt, IN which climate il rpens from May
! to June !. II has a tendency to sport
and some valuable varieties are now com
ing from il for the extreme southern part
of the Gulf states, where other races will
not grow successfully.
2. South China Race-(The parent of this
race is the honey peach, Prunus Persica
3. & H.)-Tree medium sized; branches
leaving the trunk at an angle of about
fifty degrees and curving upward; buds
quite prominent; flowers always large and
very abundant, with greater resisting
power against cold than any other race
tested in this climate; has borne crops
annually during the past four years,
when many other varieties, belonging to
different races. failed; foliage small,
slightly conduplicate, distributed all along
the limb, color dark green, in fall slight
ly tinged with red; requires short season
of rest; fruit rather small, somewhat oval
in shape, slightly fiattened, suture very
deep in basin, but does not extend more
than one-third the way down; apex long
and recIrVed; flavor peculiarly honey
sweet. Supposed to have originated In
Southern China, from which the seed
came. This race is adapted TO more South
Peen-to. Honey seedlings are proving very
valuable for the Southern Gulf states.
3. Spanish Race-Tree very large, except
in Indian type. which evidently has con-
siderable Persian blood, judging from the
color of the young wood, which is reddish,
the naked places on the bearing wood and
the corrugations on the PIT and its gem
eral shape limbs large long and spread
ing; branches low and dropping; flowers
nearly always large; leaves small and fiat,
persiSting late in fall and turning slight
~ yellow; fruit very decided in character
ripening very late, nearly always yellow
ish when mature, and covered with heavy
down. In the Indian type the fruit is
striped with red; heavy bearer and sure
cropper in its proper isotherm. Seems to
have come from the Spanish type brought
from Spain by the Spanish missionaries
and distributed among the Indians of the
extreme Southern states. Perhaps 1t Is
owing to successive seedlings in more ia
vorable climate that the type is now vary
ing. All over the Southern states one
hears the expression that seedlings are
surer bearers than budded trees, and there
seems to be some truth in this belief,
because by growing seedlings continuous
Iy, varieties may adapt themselves to eli
mate. This type Is adapted to isothermal
lines north of where the South China race
fourishes
Chinese Cling, which is a dwarf tree near
the coast, is the parent of this race. 1t
is not at all adopted 10 regions along the
Gulf. Two or three hundred miles farther
north it and its seedlings do we'll 1t is
the parent of the largest peaches in the
United States: blooms later than the
Persian, and the flowers are nearly
always large; foliage large and fiat,
turning toward autumn in the Southern
states to a peculiar green, and this
type among others in an orchard can be
detected with ease by this means alone.
The color of the foliage foreshadows the
color of fruit, as none of the seedlings,
as a rule, are highly colored. The parent
came from China, and u is adapted to
zones farther north than those suited 10
the Spanish.
s. Persian Race.-Tree medium size to
large; limbs short and thick, with long,
naked places; bark usually rich purplsh
and red on young wood flowers large
or small in different varieties; foliage
crjmpled and conduplicate, with purplish
tinges before falling, which occurs early.
This race requires long period of rest,
which indicates that it has had a more
northern origin than any other, supposed
to have been Persian. The seedlings
now form the bulk of Northern peach
orchards. Fruit usually The most highly
colored and of the finest flavor In this
race we sometimes find varieties with
yellow flesh, but their flavor is not as
good as the others. 1t is almost useless
the Gulf states.
There are some ornamental varieties
which will not be mentioned here.