The À Bec peach takes the name from its beak-like apex. It originated about 1811 at Ecully, Rhône, France, with a M. Lacène. Tree hardy, vigorous, productive; leaves large; glands globose; flowers large, rose-colored; fruit very large, roundish, uneven in outline; apex terminates in a bold, blunt nipple; cavity narrow, deep; skin thin, tender, lemon-yellow, blushed and dotted with deep crimson where exposed; flesh white, with a slight tinge of red about the stone, tender, melting, sweet, aromatic; quality good; stone oval, furrowed, free; ripens the first half of August.
Abbé de Beaumont. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 52. 1876. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:35, 36 fig. 1879.
This peach originated in Daumeray, France, in the Eighteenth Century but was not introduced until 1868. Tree vigorous, productive; glands globose; fruit large, globular; suture a mark; cavity large, deep; skin heavily pubescent, white, marbled with carmine; flesh white, tinged with a rose color at the stone, juicy, sprightly; stone ovoid, free; ripens at the end of July.
Abbé Jodoc. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 47, 214. 1876.
Abt Jodocus. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1883.
A fruit of English origin. Flowers rose-colored; leaves glandless; fruit large, spherical, irregular; skin almost covered with small, bright red dots; flesh fine; ripens the last of August.
Abundance. 1. McKay Cat. 20. 1913.
This variety as grown on the Station grounds is a type of Alexander. Introduced about 1907 by W. L. McKay, late proprietor of the Van Dusen Nurseries, Geneva, New York.
Acampo. 1. Leonard Coates Cat. 6. 1913.
According to Leonard Coates, Morganhill, California, this variety is a medium early, high-colored yellow peach of good quality; good for table and drying.
Acme. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 161. 1881.