"A wild peach of the _davidiana_ type, but differing from it in various points. Collected at the base of sheltered mountains at an elevation of 4300 feet. A tall shrub or even small tree, up to 30 feet in height, bark of stem or trunk dark reddish-brown and quite smooth in the younger shoots; leaves like those of _Amygdalus davidiana_ but often broader in the middle and always less pointed. Fruits of round-elongated form; skin covered with a heavy down, no edible flesh; stones of elliptical shape, grooves longer than in _A. davidiana_, shells very hard and thick, kernels elongated and relatively small. Found growing at elevations from 4000 to 7000 feet, in side valleys away from the Siku river; thrives especially well in sheltered and warm mountain pockets. Of value especially as a stock for stone-fruits and possibly able to stand even more dry heat than _A. davidiana_; also recommended as an ornamental spring-flowering tree, especially for the drier parts of the United States. Chinese name _Mao t'ao_, meaning 'hairy peach.'" There are many ornamental forms of the peach-tree--sorts with single or double flowers, white, pink or red in color, normal, red or variegated foliage and standard or dwarf trees. The best-known named ornamental peaches are _camelliaeflora_ with large, carmine flowers and its sub-variety, _plena_, with double flowers; _versicolor_ with different colored flowers on branches of the same tree; _atropurpurea_ with brownish-red foliage; _foliis rubris_, similar or possibly the same as the preceding, the color in both extending to the fruit; _magnifica_, a semi-double with brilliant carmine-crimson flowers; _pyramidalis_, a pyrimidal form; _pendula_, a weeping peach; and still others, of the distinctness of which we cannot be certain, as _dianthi-alba-plena_, _rubro-plena_, and _coccineo-plena_. With these ornamentals we are not to be further concerned. Of Japanese garden-forms the following varieties have been described: _P. Persica_ var. _densa_ Makimo _Tokyo Bot. Mag._ =16=:178. 1902. _P. persica_ var. _vulgaris_, f. _stellata_ Makimo l. c. =22=:119. 1908. _P. Persica_ var. _vulgaris_, f. _praematura_ Makimo l. c. =22=:119. 1908.