Peach
- Description
- It is but very little grown in New York.
- Flesh quality
- very firm, moderately fine-grained, breaking, tender, very juicy, rather briskly subacid, perfumed, slightly astringent, good or sometimes very good in quality.
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thin, rather tender, smooth
- Skin color
- pink blushed, yellow, white
- Sizes
- medium, above medium, below medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, unequal sides, ribbed, oblate, elliptical, conical
- General quality
- It is not recommended for general planting, but it may be valuable locally.
- Eating season starts in
- December
- Eating season ends in
- June
- Also known as
- Peach of Kentucky
- Winter Peach
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 252.