This is a dark red, medium-sized peach, ripening the first of September.
Swalsh. 1. Coxe Cult. Fr. Trees 221, 222. 1817. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 294. 1854.
Swalze. 3. Langley Pomona 105, Pl. 32 fig. 1. 1729.
Double Swalsh. 4. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 256. 1831.
This variety is said to have been brought into England by Lord Peterborough before 1729. Leaves with reniform glands; flowers small, dark red; fruit medium in size, ovate, with a deep suture; skin pale yellow, with a bright, deep red blush; flesh white, pale red at the pit from which it separates, melting, juicy, pleasantly flavored; ripens the first of September.
Swann Free. 1. N. C. Sta. Rpt. 12:108. 1889.
Listed in this reference.
Sweet. 1. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 167 fig. 1886-87.
Originated by M. E. Sweet, Kirtland, Ohio. Fruit large, roundish-oval; color orange-yellow, mottled and striped with bright red; flesh light yellow, juicy, sweet; quality very good; season September.
Sweet Water. 1. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 16. 1820. 2. Prince Pom. Man. 2:24. 1832.
Early Sweetwater. 3. Lond. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 6:412. 1826. 4. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard., 184. 1846.
According to Prince, Sweet Water originated in Flushing, New York, early in the Nineteenth Century. The peaches ripen a few days after Anne which Sweet Water resembles in shape of fruit and growth of tree. Leaves large, doubly serrate, glandless; flowers large; fruit of medium size, nearly round; skin thin, white, with a small amount of color on the exposed side; flesh melting, white, juicy, sweet; stone small, round, nearly flat, free.
Swick Wonder. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 236. 1906.