Fruit matures in mid-season; two and five-eighths inches long, two and one-half inches wide, round or roundish-oval, compressed, with halves equal; cavity deep, medium to wide, contracted around the sides, abrupt or flaring, often mottled with red; suture medium to deep, extending beyond the tip; apex mucronate, mamelon; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, with a dull or lively red blush in which are intermingled a few splashes of duller red; pubescence coarse, long, thick; skin thick, tough, clings to the pulp; flesh white, stained with red near the pit, juicy, stringy, tender, sweet but sprightly, pleasantly flavored; good in quality; stone clinging, one and five-sixteenths inches long, one inch wide, bulged on one side, broadly oval to ovate, flattened, short-pointed at the apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture winged, narrow, deeply grooved along the edges; dorsal suture grooved. GEORGE IV =1.= _Mas Le Verger_ =7=:49, 50, fig. 23. 1866-73. =2.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =6=:129 fig. 1879. =3.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 37. 1909. =4.= Waugh _Am. Peach Orch._ 202. 1913. _George the Fourth._ =5.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ =6=:413. 1826. =6.= _Pom. Mag._ =3=:105. Pl. 1830. =7.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =1=:192, 193. 1831. =8.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 478. 1845. =9.= _Mag. Hort._ =13=:120, 121, 122. 1847. =10.= _Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr._ 38, 51. 1848. =11.= Carrière _Var. Pêchers_ 70. 1867. =12.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 447. 1884. =13.= Budd-Hansen _Am. Hort. Man._ =2=:346. 1903. Once one of the mainstays of American peach-growing, George IV is now of but historical interest. This variety was one of the first named American peaches and had the honor of being placed on the recommended list of fruits at the first meeting of the National Convention of Fruit-Growers, an organization which became the American Pomological Society, in 1848. George IV is not worth planting now and is illustrated and described in _The Peaches of New York_ only that fruit-growers may note progress in the development of peaches. It is interesting to note that this old American peach is still widely grown in Europe.