Fruit matures late; about two and seven-eighths inches in
diameter, roundish-cordate, compressed, with unequal sides;
cavity deep, usually abrupt; suture indistinct, becoming
deeper near the tip; apex roundish or pointed, usually with
a noticeable mamelon or sometimes mucronate tip; color
golden-yellow, blushed and faintly striped and splashed with
carmine; pubescence heavy, long, coarse; skin thick, tough,
adherent to the pulp; flesh light yellow, stained with red near
the pit, juicy, coarse, tender, pleasantly sprightly; good in
quality; stone free, one and five-eighths inches long, one and
one-eighth inches wide, oval to obovate, flattened near the
base, often bulged at the apex, winged, with grooved surfaces;
ventral suture deeply marked along the edges, narrow, winged;
dorsal suture grooved, the sides wing-like.
LARGE YORK
=1.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 22. 1897. =2.= _Ill. Hort. Soc. Rpt._
26. 1899.
_New York Rareripe._ =3.= Coxe _Cult. Fr. Trees_ 220. 1817.
=4.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 277. 1854.
_Large Early York._ =5.= Prince _Treat. Fr. Trees_ 16. 1820.
=6.= _Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr._ 39, 51. 1848. =7.= Cole _Am.
Fr. Book_ 192. 1849. =8.= _Cultivator_ =6=:308 fig. 1849. =9.=
_Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 44. 1856. =10.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 288.
1859. =11.= _Horticulturist_ =16=:245. 1861. =12.= _Gard. Mon._
=5=:13. 1863. =13.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 619. 1869. =14.=
Fulton _Peach Cult._ 185, 186. 1908.
_Large Early Rareripe._ =15.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:25. 1832.
Large York long ago lost all value for either home or commercial
plantings but it is still listed in a few nursery catalogs and is still
in the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society. It is one of
the old American sorts and has been much confounded with several other
peaches. We place it among the major varieties in _The Peaches of New
York_ chiefly to straighten out the nomenclatorial tangle involving
it and the several varieties with which it is commonly confounded.
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