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barrenuess, and keep up its vigor. It is a desirable peach, and 

 M'orth the trial. 



Crawford's Early ! What shall I sav of this snperb and most 

 popular peach ? Free, vigorous, hardy, symmetrical, — its large 

 golden fruit nestling among its large, thick, wavy foliage, — 

 proclaim it, unmistakably, the peach king; bears carriage 

 well, and during the ten or fifteen days of its feign, it rules 

 the market. The worst that can be said against it is, what the 

 negro said of the moon : " lie neber shine in a dark night/' it 

 never bears when peaches are scarce, and when it bears it gluts 

 the market ; but it cannot be dispensed with. 



The Barnard. The reader will please make due allowance 

 for any excess of praise I may bestow upon this tree and fruit, 

 for it is my pet. Its long, sharp-pointed, deep green foliage, 

 in contrast with its dark deep-colored fruit, fills my eye, and I 

 can never pass it, while in fruit, without stopping to pay 

 obeisance to it ; but good as it is, in looks, size, and flavor, its 

 *chief beauty lies in the fact that it bears always. 



Crawford's Late is a first-rate peach in size, looks, and flavor; 

 bears a big price because of its lateness ; is sometimes injured 

 by frost, but worse than all it don't bear. 



Cable's Late is yellow fleshed, of good size and flavor, nearly 

 equal to the Crawfords — for which the trees have been sold by 

 nurserymen, — ripening between the Crawfords ; but my trees 

 have borne only two crops, while they should have borne six 



Newcomb's Seedling, Yellow Rareripe, Orange Eareripe. — 

 I see that the State Pomological Society give this peach the 

 first above name, while somewhere on exhibition at its late 

 fair, under the second, but we know it by the last. It is a 

 late, lightish yellow fruit, without shade in its color, of fair 

 flavor and medium sized; tree, very hardy, in habit much like 

 the Barnard, and needs, like it, shortening in to keep the 

 branches off the ground. Remarkable for producing its kind 

 from the pit. The fruit is always wanted and never fails. I 

 esteem it the most desirable within my knowledge, to close up 

 the peach season v;ith. 



