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Definition of Native peach

1. Noun. Red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Native Peach

Literary usage of Native peach

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... and the tree is called the native peach-Tree (qv). ... The fruit, which is of a blue colour and is eaten by children, is also called the native peach. ..."

2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1892)
"It ought to be hardier than our native peach. I don't know any thing about it only what I have read in the discussions of the Indiana Horticultural Society? ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Still another type of Peach, which is hardy and productive in the South, is the Indian type sometimes culled the "native peach." This is probably derived ..."

4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Tasteby Luther Tucker by Luther Tucker (1851)
"In your remarks at the close of an article written by mo for the Alabama Planter, you ask me to explain how it is that our native peach trees set their ..."

5. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America, Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1883)
"It is a very good native Peach, though not of high flavor. Leaves with obscure globose glands, often with none. Flowers 'miall. ..."

6. Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1917)
"are of pencil trees were furnished by a native peach grower who is thoroughly ... (native peach grower.) 44258. "June red peach. Ripens In June. ..."

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