_Governor._ =6.= _Del. Sta. Rpt._ =13=:101. 1901.
Were it not that Governor Hogg must compete with the well-established
Greensboro and Carman, we should say at once that it was well worth
trying in commercial planting in New York as an early, white-fleshed
peach. In the Station orchard, Governor Hogg ripens a few days after
Carman, is larger, handsomer and as good in quality. In both appearance
and quality, Governor Hogg excels Greensboro, the size, shape and color
of the two, as the illustrations show, being much the same though the
color of this variety runs more to reds and soft tints of red. The
flesh is firm, though tender and delicate, and the peaches ought to
stand shipment well. As with all of these early, white-fleshed peaches,
Governor Hogg is quite susceptible to both leaf-curl and brown-rot.
The parentage of this peach is unknown. It seems to have originated
with a Mr. McClung, Tyler, Texas, about 1892, and was disseminated by
Messrs. Sneed and Whitaker of the same place. The American Pomological
Society placed Governor Hogg on its fruit-list in 1909.
[Illustration: GOVERNOR HOGG]
Tree large, upright-spreading, open-topped, hardy, variable
in productiveness; trunk thick, reddish-brown intermingled
with light ash-gray; branches slender, with short internodes,
brownish mingled with red and ash-gray, glossy, smooth,
glabrous, with many conspicuous, large and small lenticels.
Leaves five and one-half inches long, one and one-half
inches wide, folded upward and slightly recurved, usually
oval-lanceolate, medium in thickness, leathery; upper surface
dark olive-green, smooth; lower surface grayish-green; margin
finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; petiole
three-eighths inch long, glandless or with one to five
reniform, reddish-brown glands of medium size, variable in
position; flower-buds conical, plump, pubescent, appressed;
blossoms open in mid-season.
Fruit matures early; two and one-fourth inches long, more than
two inches wide, oblong-oval, compressed, oblique; cavity deep,
narrow, abrupt; suture shallow, becoming deeper at the cavity;
apex depressed, with a mucronate tip; color creamy-white,
blushed with red; pubescence short; skin thin, separates from
the pulp; flesh white, juicy, stringy, meaty, rather tough;
good in quality; stone clinging, one and three-eighths inches
long, seven-eighths inch wide, obovate, plump, strongly bulged
on one side, conspicuously winged, pointed at the base, with
the surfaces grooved and pitted; ventral suture winged, narrow,
with furrows of medium depth along the sides.
GREENSBORO
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