"The Queenes Peach is a faire great yellowish browne Peach, shadowed as it were over with deepe red, and is ripe at Bartholmew tide, of a very pleasant good taste."
Quetier. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 411. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 41. 1895.
Glands reniform; fruit large; flesh yellow, tender, juicy, sweet, vinous, with a pleasant flavor; stone free; ripens from the first to the middle of October.
Quince. 1. Rea Flora 211. 1676.
"Quince Peach is something of that fashion, yellow and good."
R. S. Stevens. 1. Mich. Sta. Bul. 169:225. 1899. 2. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 114. 1900.
This peach is a seedling which originated on the grounds of late congressman, R. S. Stevens, Attica, New York. On the Station grounds the tree is rather strong, hardy, fairly productive; glands reniform; fruit of medium size, roundish, compressed; suture distinct; apex a mere point; skin yellow, with a dark red cheek; flesh deep yellow, red at the pit, tender, very mild, vinous, juicy; quality good; pit very small, nearly round, plump; season early September.
Radclyffe. 1. Thomas Guide Prat. 55. 1876.
Obtained from a seed of Desse Tardive grown by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England. Fruit very large, with a pale color and excellent flavor; ripens the last of September.
Ragan Smock. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 94. 1881.