"27111[34]--Chinese name _Tah-buy-tower_. A large white peach native in Shantung Province, China." _Yellow flesh._--"30333[35]--From Shagra-bazar, Chinese Turkestan. A peach called _Serech-shabdalah_. Fruits very large, of yellow color throughout; meat very firm; clingstone. Stands shipping well, but does not keep long; late in ripening (October)." "35201[36]--From Mengtsz, Yunnan, China. Seeds of Mengtsz white peach and yellow free peach. This fruit is grown all over this province and occasionally attains an enormous size, and in that respect could easily compete with the best French peaches.'" _Red flesh._--"6543[37]--From Sai Tseo. Long, rather pointed, red-fleshed, freestone." "34275[38]--From Soochow, China. This is a mixed lot of peach seeds containing some from red clingstones and some from white freestones." "17728[39]--From Matou. A peach described to me by the natives as very large, red meated, and juicy." "21991[40]--From Hangchow, Chehkiang, China. A flat, red-meated peach, not very sweet in taste. Chinese name _Hung pien tao_." _Clingstone._--"30340[41]--From Karawag, Chinese Turkestan. A peach called _Ais-shabdalah_. Fruits large, pinkish-white; meat firm, sweet; clingstone. It is said here that it can be kept for several months." "21989[42]--From Feitcheng, Shantung, China. The most famous peach of northern China, called the _Fei tao_. The fruits grow as heavy as one pound apiece and are pale yellowish colored, with a slight blush; meat white, except near the stone, where it is slightly red; taste excellent, sweet, aromatic, and juicy. Is a clingstone. Has extraordinary keeping and shipping qualities. The branches need propping up on account of the weight of the fruits." "29991[43]--Seeds of a peach from Tsinanfu, Shantung, China. It is a cling and though rather inconvenient for eating, is very large and luscious, coming into market about the middle of September and lasting for a month or more." _Freestone._--"6635[44]--From mountains near Ichang. Flowers late, fruit ripens in September. Freestone. Fruit small and quite hairy." "30357[45]--From Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. A large, red, freestone peach, fine flavored; a medium-late ripener, and a most prolific bearer." "30358[46]--From Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. A large, pale reddish, freestone peach of very fine flavor; medium-late ripener; not a keeper." "39428[47]--Amygdalus sp.--Seeds of a wild peach from Sianfu, Shensi, China. Stones of the real wild peach, growing in the mountains, one day's journey south of Sianfu. The fruits are small, hard and sourish, but there is considerable variation in them as regards size and taste. They are apparently all freestones and while some have red flesh near the stone, others are white throughout."