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flush white, ripening a week to ten days early than the Troth's 

 Early. This is now the peach for profitable orchard cul- 

 ture, where earliness is the object. This Ohio peach is justly 

 regarded as the very best early variety in cultivation. 



10. Early Sweetwater". — {Cole. Doivn. Floy. Thomj).) 

 This is a very early and very agreeable white peach, among the 



best of its season, ripei^s not long after the Early Anne, and 

 ten days or more before the Early York. It is an American 

 peach, raised from the stone of the Early Anne. It is so 

 much larger and superior to the Early Anne, or any of the 

 nutmeg peaches, that it has almost driven them from our gar- 

 dens. The tree is thrifty and productive, with pale shoots 

 and nearly white blossoms. Fruit medicinal, roundish, whitish ; 

 flesh white, juicy, melting sweet; of medium size, frequently 

 large, with a slight suture. Skin pale white, very seldom with 

 a faint blush when fully exposed; slightly stained with red 

 at the stone. 



11. Troth's Early. — A very early and excellent peach, 

 medium size ; skin whitish, with a beautiful red cheek — flesh 

 juicy, sweet, very fine— one of the most profitable varieties for 

 early marketing. We are cultivating it largely for this pur- 

 pose. (We quote Franklin Davis & Co., of Richmond Nur- 

 series.) Flesh white, resembles the Early York — early part 

 of July. 



12. Old Mixon Free. — Fo7?i. Mem. OldMixon Clearstone, 

 Coxe. 



This is a very large American peach — it matures late and 

 is of rich and high flavor. It is supposed to have been raised 

 from a seed of the Catharine Cling or the Old Mixon Cling, 

 the latter was introduced into this country many years ago, 

 by Sir John Oldmixon. It is highly productive and is a very 

 valuable variety. It is fair and large, succeeding well in all 

 localities, and well deserving the high favor in which it is 

 held, as an orchard variety. Skin yellowish-white with a deep 

 red cheek ; flesh Avhite, but red at the stone, tender, rich, 

 excellent. Tree hardy, flowers small, globose glands — Sep- 

 tember. 



13. Snow Peach. — A mostbeautiful fruit, medium size ; skin 



