Unique was raised more than a century ago by Michael Floy, New York City, from a pit of a curious peach-tree with serrate leaves which he had discovered about 1809 in New Jersey. In England the variety was introduced about 1819 as Emperor of Russia. Tree of moderate vigor, bearing narrow, glandless leaves which are very deeply and doubly serrated; fruit large, roundish, broad, one side much longer than the other; skin dull yellowish-white, with a dark red cheek; flesh yellowish-white, firm, juicy, rich and aromatic; stone free; season the last of August.
Unnamed Chinese. 1. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 291. 1893.
Professor C. S. Sargent grew this variety at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, from seed received in 1868 from Dr. Bretschneider, who found it as a cultivated variety in the mountains north of Pekin, China. Its chief importance is as a parent type in the production of new, hardy varieties. Fruit medium in size, roundish to oblong-conic, sides somewhat unequal, compressed; color greenish-white, with a faint, dotted blush; flesh greenish-white, slightly tinged with red at the free pit, firm, juicy, fibrous, subacid to sweet; quality good; season early September in Massachusetts.
Unvergleichlicher Lieblingspfirsich. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 3:206. 1858.
Unvergleichlich Schöne. 2. Liegel Anweisung 70. 1822.
Fruit large, roundish, somewhat flattened; skin yellow, with a deep red blush; flesh white, tender, sweet, vinous; season the first of September.
Utah Cling. 1. Munson Cat. 6. 1897-98.
Introduced in 1893 by T. V. Munson and Son, Denison, Texas. It is a large, prolific, yellow peach with a red cheek.
Utah Free. 1. Munson Cat. 6. 1897-98.
Also introduced by T. V. Munson and Son. A large, prolific, valuable, rich yellow peach.
Vagaloggia Cotogna. 1. Mag. Hort. 25:88. 1859.