| 0 | PI 673499 | Greensboro | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch | North Carolina, United States | DAV |  | | 1986 | COLLECTED | 1894 | | | | | Cultivar | Type = Peach. Notes on this cultivar: Once one of the leading white-fleshed cultivars. Widely adapted. Flower pale pink, showy, large; blooms late, although Hedrick says it's early; cropping efficiency high (sets heavily); chilling requirement 1000 hours; flesh white, fruit size 2 1/2 X 2 3/8 inches, round shape, white ground color, very little blush, flesh not very firm, good eating quality; semi-free stone, some split according to Hedrick; ripens 18 days before Elberta; resistant to bacterial leaf spot. From The Peaches of New York, p. 223: "Picked green the stone clings; picked at maturity the variety may be called a freestone...reniform glands...[fruit] color creamy-white, blushed red...skin rather tough...flesh white...melting...[stone] one and seven-sixteenths inches long, one inch wide." | 1007946 | PI 673499 |
| 1 | PI 673490 | Chinese Cling | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch | China | DAV |  | | 1985 | COLLECTED | | | | | | Cultivar | Type = Peach. Heterozygous for yellow and nonmelting flesh. Flower: pink, showy, pollen sterile, blooms midseason, medium cropping efficiency. Tree: 750 hours chilling requirement, reniform petiole gland shape. Skin pubescent, white flesh, fruit size 2 5/8 inches X 2 9/16 inches, greenish white ground color, flesh medium firm, good eating quality. Stone size 1 3/8 inches X 1 inch, clingstone. Ripens 7 days before elberta. Moderately resistant to bacterial leaf spot. Per Okie: First grown by Henry Lyons, Columbia, South Carolina. Ancestor of many modern peaches including Elverta. Probably related to the Chinese variety Shanghai Shuimi. Per Hedrick (see citation): "Chinese Cling was found growing in the orchards south of the city of Shanghai, China, by Robert Fortune. Tree rather weak in growth, upright-spreading, round-topped, not very hardy, medium in productiveness. Leaves seven and one-half inches long, two inches wide; petiole one-half inch long, with two to five reniform, greenish-yellow, dark tipped glands variable in position. Flower buds large, long, obtuse, plump, very pubescent, somewhat appressed; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pink, one and one-half inches across. Fruit matures late; two and five-eighths inches long, two and nine-sixteenths inches wide, round-oval, compressed; cavity deep, contracted; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, blushed on one side with lively red, splashed and marbled with duller red; pubescence thick; skin tough, adhering to the pulp; flesh white, tinged with red near the pit, juicy, meaty, tender, sweet but sprightly, aromatic; good in quality; stone clinging, one and three-eighths inches long, one inch wide, oval." | 1007805 | PI 673490 |
| 2 | PI 673491 | GEORGE IV | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch | United States | DAV |  | | 1985 | COLLECTED | | | | | | Cultivar | 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." | 1007806 | PI 673491 |
| 3 | PI 673492 | Peregrine | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch | England, United Kingdom | DAV |  | | 1985 | COLLECTED | 1906 | | | | | Cultivar | Type = Peach. Flesh white, melting texture; large, round fruit; good eating quality. Freestone. Ripens late (early August at Geneva). Per The Peach and Nectarine: "A good peach of the Alexander type, of English origin. Size large; shape round; skin green, almost entirely covered with red; flesh white, tender, juicy, melting, real English peach flavour; freestone. Ripens January. A dessert and export peach of the best quality. Suitable for the high veld of the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Natal, also the Western Province of the Cape." Per Hedrick (see citation): This variety is supposed to be a seedling of the Spencer nectarine, raised by Thomas Rivers and Son, Sawbridgeworth, England, and introduced about 1906. Fruit large, with a bright crimson color; flesh melting and juicy, with a pleasant flavor; season early August." | 1007821 | PI 673492 |
| 4 | PI 673493 | Tuscan Cling | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch | Mississippi, United States | DAV |  | | 1985 | COLLECTED | PRE 1873 | | | | | Cultivar | Type = Peach. Flower nonshowy; blooms late. 850-950 hours tree chilling requirement. Flesh yellow, roundish-oval, yellow ground color, firm flesh. Clingstone. Ripens end of September. Per Hedrick (see citation): "Tuskena originated in Mississipi. it received a place on the fruit list of the American Pomological Society in 1873 but was dropped in 1897, only to be replaced in 1899. Fruit large, roundish-oval; skin yellow, wioth a dark red cheek; flesh adherent, yellow, red at the pit, firm, vinous, rich; quality good; season the last of September." | 1007822 | PI 673493 |
| 5 | DPRU 528 | Belle | Prunus persica (L.) Batsch | | | | Historic | 1986 | DONATED | 01/31/1986 | | | | | Cultivar | Type = Peach. Per Okie: "Carries gene for pollen sterility, good bud hardiness, aromatic flavor, softens rapidly. Flower pale pink, nonshowy; high cropping efficiency; tree chilling requirement 850, petiole gland shape reniform; skin pubescent, flesh white with red near the pit, fruit size 2 1/8 inches, ovate, ground color green, slight red blush, firmness low, fair to good eating quality; stone size 1 1/8 by 13/16 inch, freestone; ripens three days before Elberta; moderate resistance to bacterial leaf spot." Per Hedrick (see citation): "Unfortunately, appearance misrepresents quality; for the variety, while good, falls short in flavor, and the flesh is stringy so that it must be rated as not above the average for its type...easy prey to leaf-curl...Belle came from a seed of Chinese Cling planted in 1870 by L. A. Rumph, Marshallville, Georgia. The other parent is unknown but it is supposed to have been Oldmixon Free, a tree of which stood near the Chinese Cling tree...tree very productive; leaf margin coarsely serrate, tipped with dark red glands; reniform...blooming season early; flowers pale pink...campanulate,...Fruit matures in mid-season; two and one-sixteenth inches long, two and one-eigth inches wide, roundish-oval; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, blushed with red, with faint stripes and splashes of darker red, mottled;...stone semi-free to free, one and one-eighth inches long, thirteen-sixteenths inch wide." | 1006918 | DPRU 528 |