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Type = Peach. Per Hedrick (see citation): "Yellow fleshed, freestone peach used for canning, preserving, and evaporating (not usually exported). Trees are vigorous, hard, healthy and very productive; early freezes often destroy the fruit and cold, wet weather usually hinders maturity, however (tree chilling requirement 750h); uncommon adaptability to diverse soils and climates makes valuable in peach-breeding. Leaves seven inches long, one and three fourths inches wide, folded upward and recurled, oval to ovate-lanceolate, leathery; petiole three eighths inch long, glandless or with one to six small, globose and reniform glands variable in color and position (some dispute over prescence of globulose). Flower buds hardy, conical or pointed, pubescent, appressed or partially free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers seven-eighths inch across, white at the center of the petals becoming pink near the margins. Fruit matures very late (40 days after Elberta); two and nine-sixteenths inches long, two and one-half inches wide, round-cordate; flesh golden-yellow, faintly tinged with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender, becomes dry with age, sweet, pleasantly flavored, aromatic; good to very good in quality; stone one and one-half inches long, one and one-sixteenth inches wide. Moderately resistant to bacti leaf spot." See also: 'Fruit Growing in South Africa', pg. 209, and Thomas' 'The American Fruit Culturist', pg. 486.