370 THE FLORIST. 



THE SALWAY PEACH. 



This new late Peach was raised from a stone of the St. Giovanni 

 Peach, brought from Florence by Colonel Sal way, in 1844, and was 

 sown the same season at his seat, Egham Park, Surrey. It produced 

 fruit for the first time in April, 1852. Last season (1853) the tree, 

 though small, ripened 30 fruits, all of good size, and considering the very 

 inferior season, they were of good quality and extremely well coloured. 



The fruit is round, indented at the apex, and has a deep channel 

 running to the stalk, the line continuing on the other side, but faintly 

 marked. Skin deep orange, tinged and mottled with red on the sunny 

 side ; flesh orange, tinged with red at the stone, soft, melting and juicy. 

 It has a sweet pleasant flavour, and is highly perfumed, parting clean 

 from the stone, which is oval, deeply channelled, and acute at one end. 

 In season the end of October and beginning of November. 



It has again borne this season, and the fruit, if possible, are of better 

 quahty than last year. It is a perfectly hardy variety, and I fully 

 beheve it will prove a valuable acquisition. 



Koyal Gardens, Frogmore. J. Powell. 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF HARDY CONIFERS.— No. XII. 



XXII. ABIES NORDMANNIANA NORDMANN's SILVER FIR. 



A NOBLE tree of recent introduction, said to be indigenous to the 

 mountain ranges in the north of Asia, on the eastern shores of the 

 Black Sea, and in the Crimea. The mountainous district of this now 

 celebrated peninsula follows the coast-line from Bala-klava to Cape 

 Theodosia, a distance of about 90 miles, and extending inland nearly 

 to the great road which runs from Theodosia, or Kaffar, by way of 

 Kara-su-buzar, Simferopol, and Bak-tchi-sarai, its greatest \vidth being 

 near the latter town. This part of the Crimea is described as one of the 

 most delightful countries in the world. The range of mountains in places 

 attains a considerable elevation, and is intersected in all directions by 

 valleys of great fertility. The mountains, which afford a good pasturage 

 to their very summits, have their slopes clothed with forests of Oak (among 

 svhich are one or two beautiful species), Walnuts, Chesnuts, Elms, 

 Pinus maritima. Junipers, &c., including Abies Nordmanniana, which 

 is here found plentifully, and forms a very conspicuous feature in the 

 scenery. The whole district rests on a soft calcareous rock, whose 

 abrupt cliffs are visible everywhere. The soil is a rich loam, and 

 besides the various indigenous trees and shrubs produces all kinds of 

 European fruits and vegetables in the greatest luxuriance. 



Nordmann's Fir forms an upright tapering tree, clothed with numerous 

 branches, produced in regular whorls, leaves linear, nearly entire, of a 

 pleasing green on the upper side, and silvery below. The general 

 appearance of the tree somewhat resembles A. grandis, but the leaves 

 are not so thickly set on the branches as in that species, and are of a 

 lighter green. The tree is perfectly hardy, and we can recommend it 



