This variety is a seedling of Smock raised by Z. S. Ragan, Independence, Missouri. The fruit has golden flesh, ripens late and is a delicious, semi-clingstone peach.
Ragan Yellow. 1. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 404. 1894.
Listed in this reference.
Rainbow. 1. Can. Hort. 24:486 fig., 487. 1901.
Rainbow was raised from a peach-pit brought from Mackinac Island, Michigan, in 1897 by David Sare, London, Ontario, Canada. Fruit large, with an attractive straw-color, mottled with purplish-red; flesh yellow, with pink markings, juicy, pleasant-flavored; stone nearly free.
Raisin. 1. Tex. Sta. Bul. 39:813. 1896. 2. Munson Cat. 16. 1914-15.
According to T. V. Munson and Son, Denison, Texas, this peach is supposed to be the result of a cross between Columbia and Heath Cling. Fruit small, oval, with an acute apex; skin dull yellowish-white, mottled with reddish-brown; flesh adherent, white, tinted with red, with a subacid flavor; quality good; ripens the middle of August in Texas.
Rambouillet. 1. Rea Flora 211. 1676. 2. Miller Gard. Dict. 1752. 3. Christ Wörterb. 355. 1802. 4. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 268. 1831. 5. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:254. 1879.
This variety was raised about 1670 near Paris, France, and evidently was named in honor of Marquis de Rambouillet of Paris. It was introduced into England in 1729 where it was grown for many years. Fruit of medium size, elongated-oval, with a deep suture; skin pale yellow, with a fine, red blush; flesh yellow, deep red at the pit which is free, juicy, with a pleasant, vinous flavor; ripens the middle of September.
Ramsey Early Cling. 1. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 115. 1880.