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VARIETIES OF TEACHES. 



B. Gott, of Arkoiui, Canada, sends us tlie following note us to varieties of 

 peaches : 



The present rage for growers is for early peaches, but the margin of profits 

 lies rather in the direction of the hiter sorts. Crawfords, early and late, still 

 hold their own without the slightest deviation of popular favor. Arnsden's 

 June is said to be good, and being early, followed closely by Early Louisa and 

 Early Rivers, two well known English peaches of great merit. These are im- 

 mediately followed by Hale's Early, a really fine peach, early and of good 

 quality. This peach seems to be doing much better lately thau it did a short 

 time ago, as it then possessed the bad fault of being very liable to rot. How- 

 ever, this may have been merely climatic. Seedling peaches are ])roduced very 

 rapidly and in great numbers, and some of them are possessed of very good 

 qualities, rendering them exceedingly profitable growing. Some very superb 

 seedlings of peaches were shown at the Western Fair in London this season. 

 Mr. James Macklin, of Strathroy, Ont., showed a seedling peach at the West 

 Middlesex agricultural fall show, that was really very fine and attracted much 

 attention as a late peach, it being in season about October 5. Mr. George Ott, 

 of Arkona, is now propagating and growing very largely a handsome yellow 

 fleshed seedling peach that comes true from seed from generation to generation. 

 It is a medium sized, round, handsome looking fruit, has a red cheek and solid 

 deep yellow flesh, and parts readily from the stone ; in season about September 

 20. On account of its internal value and continued solidity of flesh it will be 

 a valuable acquisition and admirably suited for market or distant shipment. 



Many other new varieties are zealously trumpeted loudly over the length 

 and breadth of the land as possessing new and most valuable qualities, and 

 possibly some of them do. Among the tw^o hundred and fifty varieties of 

 peaches now collected and catalogued by our nurserymen and fruit writers, it 

 ^vill be found very diflticult to produce a new one possessing qualities differing 

 from any of them. I would not, however, disparage legitimate and real pro- 

 gress in any department of industry, much less in this. I say let us have all 

 the valuable qualities in a fruit it is possible to attain, but let us be cautious 

 in running after novelties to our ultimate loss. Among the most successful 

 originators of new peaches are H. M. Engle & Sou, Marietta, Pa., who have 

 tested and named Downing, Saunders, and Wilder, which are gaining quite a 

 reputation among growers of this fruit. 



GRAPES. 



WHITE GRAPES. 



The followins: extracts from the columns of the Countni Gentleman led us 

 to seek farther information, which resulted in securing cuts and descriptions 

 of the Prentiss and ^Niagara, which are inserted in the Portfolio: 



TliG wliite grajjes. — A large number of the native '^ white," or rather light 



