A seedling from Liegel, raised about 1851. Leaves glandless; flowers usually large, white; fruit large, roundish-oblate, halves unequal, deeply sutured; skin greenish-white, with a reddish-brown blush; freestone; ripens the middle of August.
Manning. 1. Mag. Hort. 13:441. 1847.
J. F. Allen grew and named this variety after Robert Manning of Salem, Massachusetts.
Marcella. 1. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 25. 1894.
Marcella originated with E. T. Daniels, Kiowa, Kansas. On the Station grounds the trees are unproductive and susceptible to leaf-curl. Tree vigorous, upright-spreading or slightly drooping; glands reniform; flowers appear late; fruit large, roundish to oval, halves decidedly unequal; cavity shallow, sides slightly drawn in; apex roundish, with a mucronate tip; skin covered with long, thick pubescence, thin, tough, golden-yellow, with a few splashes, if any, of dark red; flesh faintly red at the pit, stringy, slightly subacid; fair in quality; stone large, oval or obovate; matures the first of October.
Marguerite. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 43, 221. 1876.
Saint Marguerite. 2. Mas Le Verger 7:41, 42, fig. 19. 1866-73.
Originated at Liége, Belgium. Tree vigorous; leaves devoid of glands; flowers large; fruit medium to above, roundish-ovoid, small, with a mamelon tip at the apex; skin thin, greenish-yellow, with a dark red blush; flesh white to the stone, juicy, sweet, aromatic; stone large, ovoid, free; matures toward the end of July.
Marie de la Rochejaquelein. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 50. 1876. 2. Mas. Pom. Gen. 12:177, 178. 1883.
Resembles Orchard Queen; leaves with reniform glands; flowers small.
Marie Talabot. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 404. 1889.