PEACH

a fruit belonging to the almond family, native to Persia but now cultivated in all temperate climates. There are a great many varieties, capable of general cla ification under “White” and “Yellow,” both types being again divisible into “Freestones,” with flesh pulling free from the stone, and “Clingstones,” with the flesh adhering to it. The “Peen-to,” in shape somewhat like a tomato, is a Chinese variety now largely grown in some semi-tropical sections of North America. In addition to their consumption as a fresh fruit, vast quantities of peaches are canned, dried and evaporated, principally the first-named. Lemon and Orange “clings” and Crawford “free stones” are among the most popular types for canning. Dried peaches come from California, the annual product amounting to from twenty to thirty: you sand tons. The most widely sold of evaporated peaches are those from Delaware. Peeled dried or evaporated peaches retailed in cartons bring double the price of the bulk product. Fresh peaches are imported from Bermuda toward the end of April and realize fancy prices at that time. They come from the South during June, and from New PEACHES [s. 462]