Flower-buds tender, medium to small, short, conical or pointed, plump, pubescent, free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers a faded pink, white at the center of the petals, about three-fourths inch across; pedicels short, medium to thick, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green; calyx-lobes short, broad, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals roundish-oval, tapering to short, broad claws occasionally with a red base; filaments one-fourth inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent near the base, longer than the stamens. Fruit matures very late; two and one-eighth inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, round-oval, compressed and somewhat angular, with unequal sides; cavity variable in depth and width, abrupt or flaring; suture shallow, extending beyond the apex; apex ending in a swollen, pointed tip; color creamy-white, blushed with red, splashed and mottled with darker red; pubescence short, thick, fine; skin thin, adhering to the pulp; flesh white, juicy, firm and meaty but tender, sweet or somewhat sprightly; good in quality; stone clinging, one and one-fourth inches long, seven-eighths inch wide, oval, plump, flattened and pointed toward the base, tapering to a short point at the apex, with dark brown, grooved surfaces; ventral suture deep along the sides, thick, furrowed; dorsal suture grooved. HEATH FREE =1.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 37. 1909. =2.= Waugh _Am. Peach Orch._ 203. 1913. _Kenrick Heath._ =3.= Prince _Treat. Hort._ 17. 1828. =4.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:30, 31. 1832. =5.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 479. 1845. =6.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 78. 1862. =7.= Budd-Hansen _Am. Hort. Man._ =2=:348. 1903. _Heath._ =8.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 226, 227. 1832. Heath Free is now rarely planted, being replaced by better sorts--in fact it was out of date a quarter-century ago when the American Pomological Society dropped it from its fruit-list. We can see no justification of the Society's action in restoring the variety to its list ten years later. The tree-characters of Heath Free seem to be, in the main, very good but the peaches are not at all attractive in appearance and none too good in quality--at best it is but a culinary sort. Possibly it is worth growing under some conditions as a late, white-fleshed peach.