Narrative
Type = Peach. Per Hedrick (see citation): "This variety is suppossed to have originated as a chance seedling around 1821 in a garden owned by a Mr. Gill of Broad Street, New York City. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, unproductive...leaves seven inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide,...oval to obovate-lanceolate, rather thick...petiole three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to three small, globose, reddish-brown glands usually at the base of the blade. Flower...blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pale pink, with white centers and edged with darker pink, nearly one inch across...petals roundish-oval, tapering to claws red at the base...fruit matures in mid-season; two and five-sixteenths inches long, two and seven-sixteenths inches wide, roundish-oblate, bulged near the apex, oblique, with unequal sides...apex roundish, with a mucronate tip; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, with a pink blush and sometimes with faint mottlings of red...flesh whitish, deeply tinged with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender,mild, pleasantly flavored; good in quality; stone semi-free to free, one and one-eighth inches long; three-fourths inch thick, roundish-oval."