Duboisviolette. 1. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:476. 1860.
This variety was brought to France from China by a M. Duboisviolette. The flowers are very large, semi-double, reddish-purple; glands reniform; fruit large, roundish, terminating in a mamelon tip; skin white except where exposed; flesh white, vinous.
Duboscq. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 122. 1860.
Similar to Oldmixon Free; a very large, good, greenish-white peach.
Duchess of Cornwall. 1. Gard. Chron. 59:446. 1901.
Duchess of York. 2. Ibid. 58:59. 1900. 3. Ibid. 59:427. 1901.
Originated and introduced by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England. Fruit of medium size; skin creamy-yellow, with a striped red blush; flesh melting, with a distinct nectarine flavor; freestone; ripens with Alexander.
Duchesse de Galliera. 1. Guide Prat. 40. 1895.
Vigorous, productive; glands globose; fruit very large, compressed; apex mucronate; skin thin, reddish-purple in the sun; flesh white, violet at the pit, melting, very juicy; freestone; ripens the second half of September.
Duff. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 44. 1891.
Duveteuse Jaune. 2. Mas Le Verger 7:237, 238, fig. 117. 1866-73.
Duff Yellow. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 608. 1869. 4. Ga. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 24. 1876. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 28. 1877.
Duff is an early, market peach which appeared on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society from 1877 until 1897. Glands globose; flowers small; fruit very large, round, with a sharp point; skin yellow, with a red cheek; flesh yellow, red about the stone, juicy, slightly acid; clingstone; ripens the middle of July in the South.