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MOUNTAIN ROSE 



is another comparatively new peach, promising to be valuable for market pur- 

 poses, and, perhaps, destined to usurp the place of the Large Early York, with 

 Avhich it is in season, and which it seems calculated to eclipse, so far, at least, 

 as beauty of appearance is concerned. Tree vigorous and very productive ; 

 glands globose; flowers small; fruit large; color dark rich red; flesh white, 

 stained red at the stone, juicy, sweet, slightly vinous, separating freely from 

 the stone. In season the last of August and first of September. 



ATLANTA 



is a new peach, originated by Dr. E. Ware Sylvester, of Lyons, N. Y., and 

 is, as yet, but sparely distributed. It is a free grower and productive, with 

 reniform glands; fruit medium sized; skin whitish, shaded, and dotted with 

 deep red, and nearly purple in the sun ; flesh stained with red at the stone, to 

 which it slightly adheres; flavor rich, sweet. Ripe last of September. 



RICHMOND 



is another of Dr. Sylvester's seedlings, according to whose description the tree 

 is vigorous and very productive ; glands reniform ; fruit medium to large; skin 

 a fine yellow, mottled with dark, rich red ; flesh yellow, red at the stone, juicy, 

 melting, sweet, vinous, free from the medium-sized stone, less acid and a little 

 later than Early Crawford. A promising market variety. 



SALAVAT 



is a ipe&ch. originated by the late Thomas Rivers, of Sawbridge worth, near Lon- 

 don, England. The tree is said to be vigorous, and very productive. Flowers 

 small, glands reniform ; fruit large, roundish oblate, with a broad, deep suture, 

 extending beyond the apex ; skin downy, creamy yellow, with a warm, rich, 

 clear, crimson red cheek in the sun ; flesh deep yellow, red at the stone, which 

 is free, juicy, melting, rich, sweet, slightly vinous; very good. It ripens soon 

 after the Smock, — so late that its success in Michigan may be doubtful, except, 

 possibly, at the south. 



southwick's late 



originated as an accidental seedling with Mr. Southwick, of Dansville, N. Y. 

 Tree vigorous and productive. Flowers small; fruit large, roundish, a little 

 depressed at the apex; suture distinct; mamelon small, sunken nearly to a 

 level with the parts around ; skin yellowish white, sprinkled with minute red 

 dots in the shade, and streaked and clouded with red next the sun ; flesh 

 white, parting freely from the stone, very juicy and melting, with a fine, deli- 

 cate flavor, stone very small. Ripe last of September. 



THE RIVERS PEACHES. 



Some years since the late Thomas Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, England, so 

 long known to the horticultural world as one of the most Americanlike of 

 Englishmen, and as always an ardent and persevering experimenter in the 

 pomological field, undertook a series of experiments for the origination of new 

 Tarieties of peaches ; and he seems to have accomplished a most wonderful suc- 

 cess, whether we consider the number of these productions or their great 

 beauty and reported earliness and high quality. Among them the following 

 have been introduced into this country, some of which have already fruited oa 

 this side of the water. We describe and class them, as nearly as practicable, in 

 the order of ripening, as given by the originator, and, with the exception of th« 

 first three, nearly in his own language : 



