. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. CHINESE FREE CROSBY 167 many of its offspring, except, possibly in qual- ity. The flavor is delicious, being finely bal- anced between sweetness and sourness, with sweet predominating, and with a most distinct, curious, and pleasant taste of the almond. The fruits are too tender for shipment and very subject to brown-rot. The trees are weak-growers, shy-bearers, tender to cold, and susceptible to leaf-curl. Chinese Cling was imported in 1850 by Charles Downing from Shanghai, China. Tree weak in growth, upright-spreading, round-topped, not ver
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. CHINESE FREE CROSBY 167 many of its offspring, except, possibly in qual- ity. The flavor is delicious, being finely bal- anced between sweetness and sourness, with sweet predominating, and with a most distinct, curious, and pleasant taste of the almond. The fruits are too tender for shipment and very subject to brown-rot. The trees are weak-growers, shy-bearers, tender to cold, and susceptible to leaf-curl. Chinese Cling was imported in 1850 by Charles Downing from Shanghai, China. Tree weak in growth, upright-spreading, round-topped, not very hardy, medium in productiveness. Leaves 7% inches long, 2 inches wide, broad oval-lanceolate, thick, leathery ; margin coarsely crenate to finely serrate ; teeth tipped with dark red glands ; petiole % inch long, with 2-5 reniform, greenish-yellow, dark-tipped glands. Blos- soms midseason, pink, iy2 inches across. Fruit late; 2Vi inches in diameter, round-oval, compressed ; cavity deep, contracted, narrow, abrupt, faintly tinged with red ; suture deep, extending beyond the apex ; apex round or flattened, with a mucronate tip ; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, blushed on one side with lively red, splashed and marbled with duller red; pubescence thick; skin tough, adhering to the pulp; flesh white, tinged with red near the pit, juicy, meaty, tender, sweet but sprightly, aromatic; good in quality; stone clinging, oval, conspicuously winged, bulged on one side, with pitted surfaces. CHINESE FREE. Leaves, flowers, and fruits of Chinese Free are all smaller than those of Chinese Cling, the quality of the fruit is not nearly so good, while the tree runs a little better in most characters. The variety is surpassed by many other white- fleshed peaches of its season for both home and market. Chinese Free grew from a seed of Chinese Cling in the orchard of W. P. Robinson, Atlanta, Georgia, about 1880. Tree vigorous, spreading, open-topped, neither very hardy nor very produ
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