Tree medium in size or small, upright-spreading, round-topped,
productive; trunk thick, rough; branches stocky, roughened,
reddish-brown intermingled more or less with ash-gray;
branchlets slender, often rebranching, long, with internodes
dark pinkish-red mingled with varying shades of olive-green,
and with conspicuous, numerous, raised lenticels.
Leaves six and one-fourth inches long, one and one-half inches
wide, flattened, lanceolate, leathery; upper surface dull, dark
green; lower surface olive-green; margin finely and shallowly
serrate, tipped with glands; petiole three-eighths inch long,
with one to four small, reniform glands usually at the base of
the blade.
Flower-buds small, medium to short, conical or obtuse,
pubescent, plump, usually appressed; blossoms appear in
mid-season; flowers medium in size, showy, light pink, usually
single; pedicels medium in length and thickness, green;
calyx-tube reddish-green, orange-green within, obconic;
calyx-lobes acute or obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent
without; petals roundish, tapering to claws tinged with red at
the base; filaments equal to or shorter than the petals; pistil
pubescent.
Fruit matures late; two and one-half inches long, two and
three-sixteenths inches wide, oval, with unequal halves; cavity
shallow, medium in width, flaring; suture very shallow, often
indistinct toward the cavity; apex distinctly elongated; color
pale green becoming whitish, with faint mottlings and with a
distinct or faint blush; pubescence short, thick; skin tough,
adhering to the pulp; flesh white, stained with red near the
pit, juicy, fine-grained, tender and melting, very sweet and
of a delightful flavor; very good to best; stone free, one and
three-eighths inches long, thirteen-sixteenths inch wide, oval
or ovate, not very plump, bulged at one side, long and pointed
at the apex, with roughish and pitted surfaces, dark brown
mingled with purplish-red; ventral suture rather narrow, often
winged, deeply grooved along the edges; dorsal suture grooved.
IRON MOUNTAIN
=1.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =152=:197, 200. 1898. =2.= _Ibid._
=169=:217. 1899. =3.= _Rural N. Y._ =58=:738 fig. 271. 1899.
=4.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 37. 1909. =5.= Waugh _Am. Peach
Orch._ 203. 1913.
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