[35] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =233=:77. 1912. [36] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Inv. of S & P. I._ 21. 1915. [37] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =66=:95. 1905. [38] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Inv. of S. & P. I._ 32. 1914. [39] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =106=:50. 1907. [40] _Ibid._ =137=:31. 1909. [41] _Ibid._ =233=:78. 1912. [42] _Ibid._ =137=:31. 1909. [43] _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ =No. 59=:404. 1911. [44] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =66=:102. 1905. [45] _Ibid._ =233=:80 1912. [46] _Ibid._ =233=:80. 1912. [47] _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ =103=:828. 1914. [48] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =66=:189. 1905. [49] _Ibid._ =66=:306. 1905. [50] _Ibid._ =142=:21. 1909. [51] _Ibid._ =66=:95. 1905. [52] _Ibid._ =66=:95. 1905. [53] _Ibid._ [54] _Ibid._ [55] _Ibid._ =233=:47. 1912 [56] _Ibid._ =242=:12. 1912. [57] _U. S. D. A. Bu. of Pl. Ind. Bul._ =137=:31. 1909. [58] _Ibid._ [59] _Ibid._ =137=:46. 1909. [60] _Ibid._ =66=:191. 1905. [61] _Ibid._ =162=:50. 1909 [62] _Ibid._ [63] _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ =51=:4. 1910. [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. [73] Meyer, F. W. _U. S. D. A. Bur. Pl. Ind. Bul._ =132=:80. 1908. [74] _Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt._ =12=:64, 65. 1886-87. [75] Schuyler, Eugene _Turkestan_ =1=:296, 297. 1876. [76] Lansdell, Henry _Russian Central Asia_ =1=:223. 1885. [77] Lansdell, Henry _Russian Central Asia_ =1=:277. 1885. [78] _Ibid._ =1=:608. 1885. [79] _Ibid._ =2=:83. 1885. [80] Bostock and Riley _Nat. History of Pliny_ =3=:296. 1855. [81] Bostock and Riley _Nat. History of Pliny_ =3=:296. 1855. [82] _Ibid._ =3=:293, 294. 1855. [83] De Candolle Alphonse _Or. Cult. Plants_ 225. 1885.