Welch was introduced by Charles B. Welch, Douglas, Michigan, having been raised as a seedling of Chili about 1880. The variety resembles its parent but is considered hardier, less subject to leaf-curl and brown-rot, better in quality and ripens its fruit later.
Weld Freestone. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 179. 1835. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 289. 1854.
Said to have been raised by Eben Weld, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Fruit large, roundish-oval; skin greenish-white, with a red blush; flesh rich, sweet, vinous, with a delicious flavor; ripens the last of September.
Wellington. 1. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 105. 1831. 2. Can. Hort. 24:480. 1901.
This old sort has long been growing in Toronto, Canada, but only recently came before the public. The fruit is a large freestone, with yellow flesh and the tree shows distinct hardiness and vigor.
West. 1. Ga. Sta. Bul. 42:242. 1898.
This is a low, spreading variety with reniform glands.
Western Newington. 1. Prince Treat. Fr. Trees 17. 1820.
Listed in this reference as a clingstone.
Whaley Favorite. 1. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 28:87. 1896.