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dotted with red in the shade, dark red to the sun ; flesh 

 greenish Avhite, very tender, juicy, rich and excellent. There 

 are a few seedings raised from this, and bearing the same 

 name, which are rather more thrifty, but do not possess the 

 high flavor of the original kind. They are easily known from 

 it by the absence of glands in the leaves and by the large 

 flowers of the true sort. Last of July and first of August. 



6. Early Anne, — {Doivn. Lind. Thomp.) 



The Early Anne is an old and familiar sort. It is the first 

 peach of any value that ripens. The Red and White nut- 

 megs being too small, and of indifferent flavor ; and the Early 

 Anne itself is inferior to the Early Tillotson, but it is a few 

 days earlier and will be cultivated by all amateurs. The tree 

 is of slender growth. Leaves serrated, without glands. Fruit 

 rather small, round ; skin white, with a faint tinge of red next 

 the sun ; flesh white to the stone, soft, melting, sweet, and of 

 pleasant flavor ; flowers very large, nearly white. Profitable 

 for early market. 



7. Honey Peach. — A new variety from South Carolina) 

 where it ripens the last of June. Described as of the finest 

 quality, and promising to be very saleable as an early market 

 peach. Oblong, skin yellowish, mottled with red and crim- 

 son, of a peculiar honeyed sweetness. 



8. George the Fourth. — [Down. Floy. Lind. Tliomjj.) 

 This is the most popular peach for garden culture in .the 



United States. It is large, bears regular and abundant crops, 

 is of the highest flavor, and the tree is unusually hardy and 

 vigorous, succeeding ivell in all parts of the country. Leaves 

 large, with globose glands, often obscure. Fruit large, round, 

 deeply divided by a broad suture, and one half a little larger 

 than the other. Skin pale, yellowish white, finely dotted with 

 red, and deepening into a dark red cheek on one side. Flesh 

 pale, marked with red at the stone, which is small, melting, 

 very juicy, w^ith a remarkably rich luscious flavor. Middle 

 of August below and around Richmond, Va. 



9. Hales' Early. — A very valuable, extra early peach, of 

 recent introduction. Tree a v-ery vigorous grower and abun- 

 dant bearer ; fruit medium size, handsome and well flavored, 



