Caroline Incomparable. 1. Carrière Var. Pêchers 43. 1867.
Tree vigorous; glands reniform; flowers small, pale rose; fruit large, irregular in outline, conical, mamelon at the apex; skin orange-yellow, blushed and marbled with deep red; flesh stained at the pit, firm, fibrous, sugary, juicy; stone clinging, acutely oval; ripens the first of September.
Carolinen Härtling. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:185. 1883.
Listed in this reference.
Carpenter. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 36. 1909.
Carpenter Cling. 2. Ibid. 44. 1891. 3. Del. Sta. Rpt. 13:91, 92. 1901.
Carpenter is a seedling of Chinese Cling which originated with a Mr. Carpenter of Texas. It was put on the American Pomological Society's list of fruits in 1891 as Carpenter Cling, but was dropped in 1897, reappearing in 1909 as Carpenter. Fruit large, white-fleshed, clingstone; ripens July 15th.
Carpenter Red Rareripe. 1. Hooper W. Fr. Book 215. 1857.
Best known about Frankfort, Kentucky. Glands reniform; flowers small; fruit roundish, of medium size; flesh white, stained at the pit, melting, juicy; quality fair; freestone; ripens in September.
Carpenter White. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 609. 1857. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 78. 1862.
Carpenter Late. 3. Kan. Hort. Soc. Peach, The 139. 1899.
William S. Carpenter, New York City, introduced this variety. It held a place on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society from 1862 until 1869. Tree vigorous, productive; glands globose; fruit very large, round, white; flesh white to the pit, juicy, melting, separating from the stone, of excellent flavor; matures the middle of October.