[64] Ibid. 60:411. 1911.
[65] Ibid. 60:412. 1911.
[66] Ibid. 62:431. 1911.
[67] M. Cibot, a French missionary, writing nearly a century and a half ago in his memoirs concerning the Chinese (II:280-293. 1784), gives the following account of peaches with which he was familiar in China at that time:—
"Peaches are distinguished by size and color, the shape and earliness of their fruit. There are some whose flesh is white, some greenish, some a delicate yellow, some a yellow orange and some marble; some are round, some oval, some lengthened to a point like a crow's beak. Peaches are heard of weighing two pounds or even more. The largest ones I have seen were scarcely three and a half inches in length and diameter; as to earliness, in the middle provinces there are peaches almost as soon as cherries. It is still more astonishing that some varieties do not ripen here till October, and that there is a secret by which they can be kept till January, just as fresh, just as beautiful, and just as delicious as if right off the tree."
[68] Ikeda, T. The Fruit Culture in Japan 32, 33. 1907.
[69] Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 315.
[70] Royle, Illust. Bot. Himal. 204.
[71] Hooker, Sir Joseph, Jour. of Bot. 54. 1850.
[72] Hendricks, P. J. P. U. S. D. A. Bur. Pl. Ind. Bul. 97:72. 1905.