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and is in a great degree exempt from his depredations. Its 

 value is also greatly enhanced from the fact that it is one of 

 the best varieties that reproduces itself invariably from the 

 seed. 



76. Lemon Cling. — Synonym. Pine Aj^j^Ie, Kennedy s 

 Caroline^ Early L. Cling. 



This is a native of South Carolina, and the finest, most 

 beautiful and largest of all yellow fleshed clings. Reproduces 

 the same from seed. 



77. Old Mixox Cling. — This is one of the finest and 

 highest flavored of all white flushed peaches knoWn in this 

 country. Always the same from the seed. 



78. Hartshorn. — Coles. 



Large, roundish, oval ; rich, yellow, deep blush ; flesh has 

 a peculiar coarse grain, that fits it admirably for preserves. 

 Sacharine and pleasant ; produces the same from the seed ; 

 from first to middle October. 



BLOOD PEACHES. 



79. "Blood Cling. — Floy. Down. 



An extremely large and peculiar fruit, much esteemed for 

 pickling and preserving, to which it is well adapted. Flesh 



Note. — "The Heath (says Mr. H. C. Williams, of Falls Churoh, Fair- 

 fax county, Va.) has been in m}'- father's family for more than seventy 

 years, grown all the time from the seed. There are other varieties of 

 peaches, such as the Columbia, Old Mixon Cling, etc., whose individual 

 character is so strongly impressed upon them that they appear to refuse 

 a union with others, and hence they will almost invariably, or in a great 

 majority of cases, reproduce themselves from their own kernels. 



In Georgia, Tennessee and Arkansas, the Heath is called the ^'English 

 Peach,^^ from the circumstance that Col. Hamilton, who is mentioned 

 in Lee's memoirs as an officer in the Revolutionary war, and afterwards 

 Consul at Norfolk, having brought stones of this peach from Scotland, 

 distributed them among his old neighbors in Caswell or Person county, 

 North Carolina, where he had been a merchant previous to the war. 



Cox ascribes the introduction of this peach from the Mediterranean to 

 a Mr. Heath. The two peaches are identically the same, and its con- 

 stant habit of reproducing itself without variation, proves its universal 

 popularity, and tends to confirm the history of its appearance in this 

 country at two points remote from each other. A Heath seedling makes 

 the best stock for budding of any of our fine varieties." 



