"Orleance red peach is a fine fruit, and leaves the stone."
Orleans. 1. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 158. 1898.
Orleans is best known in Orleans County, New York, where it originated with Julius Harris of Ridgeway. On the Station grounds the trees are not very productive. Trees upright, slightly spreading, open; leaves numerous, rugose at the midrib, slightly curled up; glands small and globose; flowers appear late, small; fruit large, roundish-oval to roundish-conic, halves unequal, bulged at the apex; cavity deep; suture shallow; apex often tipped with a mucronate point; skin tough, covered with thick pubescence, greenish-yellow, becoming almost orange, slightly splashed with dull red forming a mottled blush; flesh tinged with red about the pit, juicy, coarse, stringy, sweet, mild, high-flavored; very good in quality; stone free, large, ovate, conspicuously winged; ripens the middle of September.
Orman. 1. Tex. Sta. Bul. 8:34. 1899. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909.
Listed by the American Pomological Society as having originated in Texas.
Oro. 1. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 263. 1892.
Oro was brought to notice by C. S. Bell, Oroville, California. Glands reniform; fruit large, oblate-conic; skin thin, tender, yellow, with a bright red blush; flesh reddish-yellow, melting, juicy, vinous, subacid; freestone; ripens in California the last of September.
Ortiz Cling. 1. Boonville Nur. Cat. 19. 1912.
This clingstone ripens in September and attains the size of Elberta. It is excellent for preserving.
Oscar. 1. Greening Bros. Cat. 81. 1899.
Oscar Black Prince. 2. Ont. Sta. Rpt. 43. 1899.