Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading; branches willow-like, branching at an angle of about forty degrees; flowers large, pink, opening early, often at a low temperature and very irregularly; leaves narrow, long, finely serrated, with reniform glands; inclined to be evergreen; fruit sub-globose except in Peento which is flattened endwise; skin white and mottled with carmine, parting readily from the flesh; flesh white or yellow; flavor sweet, with a peculiar almond taste; stone occasionally flattened endwise, either free or cling. This race is adapted to sub-tropical parts of the Gulf States where it ripens from May 1st to June 1st. The Peento, which gives name to this group, is without doubt a descendant of the flat peaches of China, common enough as we have seen. The first tree, however, came from Java to England where it was first grown by John Braddick under the name Java peach.[206] William Prince,[207] Flushing, Long Island, imported the variety to America some time previous to 1828 and grew it to the number of twenty trees. The peaches from Prince's importation seem to have been lost and the variety did not appear again in America until 1869 when P. J. Berckmans,[208] Augusta, Georgia, brought seed from China, from one of which came the Peento. Peento peaches in America are peculiar to Florida, where all of the score or more varieties but the Peento have originated. This group of peaches has been well described by H. Harold Hume in Bulletin 62 of the Florida Experiment Station from which the description given above is an adaptation. FOOTNOTES: [1] De Candolle, Alphonse _Or. Cult. Plants_ 222. 1885. [2] Meyer, Frank N. _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ =No. 107=:862. 1915. [3] Feb. 4, 1916. [4] De Candolle, Alphonse _Or. Cult. Plants_ 228. 1885. [5] Chinese Literature, Edited by Epiphanius Wilson Bk. I:126. 1902. [6] _Ibid._ Bk. IX:148, 149. 1902. [7] _Ibid._ Bk. XIII:161. 1902. [8] Cibot, Pierre Martial _Mém. concernant l'hist. les sciences_ etc. _des Chinois_. =II=:280-293. 1777. [9] _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants._ =No. 102=:823-825. 1914. [10] Knight Thomas Andrew _Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond._ =3=:1. 1820. [11] _Gard. Chron._ 531. 1856. [12] _Gard. Chron._ 27. 1863. [13] Darwin _Ans. and Pls. Domest._ =1=:357. 1868. [14] Carrière, E. A. _Variétés De Pêchers_ 25-33. 1867. [15] De Candolle, Alphonse _Or. Cult. Plants_ 229. 1885. [16] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =227=:20. 1911. [17] _Ibid._ =227=:47. 1911. [18] _Ibid._ =233=:76. 1912. [19] _Ibid._ =233=:77. 1912. [20] _Ibid._ [21] _Ibid._ [22] _Ibid._ =233=:78. 1912. [23] _Ibid._ [24] _Ibid._ =233=:80. 1912. [25] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =242=:27. 1912. [26] _Ibid._ [27] _Ibid._ =207=:62. 1911. [28] _Ibid._ =233=:76. 1912. [29] _Ibid._ =233=:78. 1912. [30] _Ibid._ [31] _Ibid._ [32] _Ibid._ =106=:26. 1907. [33] _Ibid._ =132=:80. 1908. [34] _U. S. D. A. Bul. of For. Pl. Int._ =No. 32=:19. 1910.