Chinese Blood. 1. Tex. Sta. Bul. 39:816. 1896.
Chinese Blood is of unknown origin; the fruit resembles Chinese Cling in flavor. Tree vigorous, moderately productive; fruit small, ovate, with an acute apex; color yellowish-green, with a red blush; flesh clinging, moderately sweet, with a pleasant, vinous flavor; ripens in Texas the first of July.
Chinese Crooked. 1. Fulton Peach Cult. 202. 1908.
A variety of unknown origin; so named because of its crooked fruits. The seed from which it sprang is supposed to have been brought from China. The fruit is very sweet but so small and unattractive as to be worthless. Grown under glass as dwarf trees, the variety forms an attractive ornamental.
Chinese Peach. 1. Gard. & For. 5:438, 439, fig. 72. 1892.
Peach-pits were sent to Charles S. Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, in 1879 from China and from one of these grew this peach. The tree is very vigorous and hardy. The fruit has a thick skin, white, juicy flesh; is of good quality and a freestone. Sargent believes the variety may be valuable in breeding a new race of exceptionally hardy peaches.
Chisolm. 1. Tex. Nur. Cat. 4. 1913.
The Texas Nursery Company, Sherman, Texas, describes this variety as a yellow freestone grown by W. H. Chisolm, Grayson County, Texas; it ripens after Elberta.
Christiana. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 603. 1869. 2. Tex. Sta. Bul. 39:810. 1896. 3. Md. Sta. Bul. 159:155. 1911.
Downing speaks of a white-fleshed Christiana from Pomaria, South Carolina. Other pomologists say it has yellow flesh. On the Station grounds the tree is vigorous and only moderately productive. Glands small, globose; flowers appear in mid-season, small; petals edged with a deep pink; fruit large, roundish-oval, with a beaked apex, angular; cavity deep; suture shallow; skin tough, covered with fine pubescence, golden-yellow, washed with deep red and with a few splashes; flesh light yellow, tinged with red about the pit, juicy, firm, stringy, sprightly; quality good; stone free, large, ovate, plump; matures the third week in September.