Tree vigorous; branches slender; leaves large; glands reniform; flowers large; fruit large, globular; suture more pronounced near the cavity; skin heavily pubescent, wine-red becoming violet, marbled, adheres to the pulp; flesh blood-red, fibrous, melting, aromatic; stone large, ovoid, free; ripens early in October.
Alexis Lepère. 1. Rev. Hort. 471. 1892. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 84 fig. 1906.
Alexis Lepère, Jr., Montreuil, France, grew this variety from seed about 1876. Tree vigorous, productive; leaves glandless; flowers small; fruit large, roundish, faintly conic; skin greenish-yellow, marbled with carmine; flesh white, tinged with red about the stone, fine, melting, juicy, aromatic; quality very good; stone free; ripens the last of August.
Alger Winter. 1. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 297. 1875.
A yellow, freestone peach which ripens late and keeps long.
Algerine. 1. Peachland Nur. Cat. 12. 1892.
The catalog of the Peachland Nurseries, Seaford, Delaware, describes this variety as a large, yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach.
Alice. 1. Munson Cat. 6. 1898-99. 2. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:90. 1901.
Alice Haupt. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 152. 1883.
Alice is a white-fleshed, freestone seedling of Chinese Cling raised by William W. Haupt, Kyle, Texas.
Alice Free. 1. Green River Nur. Cat. 14. 1899.