Valued for the size and attractiveness of the fruit; ripens just before Late Crawford.
Purple Peach. 1. Gard. Mon. 25:305. 1883.
This is a seedling, valued chiefly as an ornamental.
Pyramidal. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:250, 251 fig., 252. 1879.
This peach which was found near Poissy, Seine-et-Oise, France, in 1823, is valued chiefly as an ornamental. Fruit small, roundish-oval, irregular; skin yellowish-white, marbled with deep carmine; flesh yellowish-white, slightly red at the pit, juicy, very sweet; quality good; stone free; season the first of September.
Quaker. 1. Augustine Nur. Cat. No. 43:7. 1910.
According to Augustine and Company, Normal, Illinois, this peach was found in northwestern Iowa about 1900, by Colonel Milton L. Haney, and was later introduced by the firm named. Tree hardy; fruit of medium size; of fair quality.
Quality. 1. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 290. 1893. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 73. 1895.
Originated with J. W. Kerr, Denton, Maryland. Fruit medium to large, roundish; color white, with a red cheek; flesh free, creamy-white, tinged with red at the stone, juicy, melting, vinous, sprightly; quality very good; season the last of August.
Queen. 1. Mo. State Fr. Sta. Rpt. 1:11. 1901.