Ameliaberta is a cross between Amelia II and Elberta. The variety has little or no value in this State. It originated with J. H. Jones, Herndon, Georgia, and was introduced in 1893. In 1899, it was given a place in the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society where it remained until 1909. On the Station grounds the fruit ripens with Elberta and does not equal that variety. Tree vigorous, upright-spreading; leaves oval to obovate-lanceolate, usually with reniform glands; flowers appear late; fruit large, roundish; suture shallow, deeper at the apex; skin yellow, washed and splashed with crimson; flesh yellow, with red radiating from the pit, stringy, juicy, sprightly; quality good; stone free, large, broadly oval; ripens the first half of September.
American Apricot. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 3:219. 1858. 2. Gard. Mon. 29:306 fig. 1887. 3. Mich. Sta. Bul. 169:207. 1899.
Jaune d'Amerique? 4. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:176. 1883.
Northern Apricot. 5. Mich. Sta. Bul. 129:26. 1896.
This variety, a seedling from South Carolina, as grown on the Station grounds is of the Crawford type, rather late in ripening and only fair in quality.
American Pound. 1. Gard. Mon. 7:372. 1865.
A name applied to a large, American variety introduced into New Zealand.
Ammirabile Belga. 1. Gard. Chron. 907. 1858.
An Italian peach exhibited at the Imperial and Royal Horticultural Society of Tuscany, Italy, in 1858.
Amsden. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 437. 1884. 2. Rev. Hort. 506, 507, 508. 1893. 3. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 85 fig. 1906.
Amsden June. 4. Cult. & Count. Gent. 39:472, 486. 1874. 5. Gard. Mon. 16:278. 1874. 6. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 2nd App. 141. 1876. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 28. 1877.
Amsden grew from a seed planted in 1868 by L. C. Amsden, Carthage, Missouri. It first fruited in 1872; in 1877 the American Pomological Society added the variety to its fruit-list but dropped it in 1891. Tree vigorous, productive; glands globose; fruit of medium size, roundish, slightly compressed, with a broad, shallow suture extending beyond the depressed apex; skin greenish-white, nearly covered with light and dark red, nearly purple in the sun; flesh greenish-white throughout, tender, juicy, sweet, slightly vinous; quality good; stone small, nearly free when mature; season the last of June or early in July.
Amsden Pine. 1. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 416. 1899.