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PEACHES BEST ADAPTED TO NEW-ENGLAND. 



Onondaga. — Large and handsome ; juicy, 

 but not high flavored. After frequent trials 

 of specimens from various sources, it falls 

 below our standard of a first rate pear. 

 October and November. [This opinion is 

 based upon specimens of the past autumn 

 only. We have already stated that this 

 fruit fell below its standard value during 

 the past season; we trust it will redeem its 

 character in 184S. Ed.] 



Knight's Seedling. — A native of Rhode 

 Island ; large, handsome, delicious. The 

 fruit should be gathered before it is ripe. 

 It will, probably, prove to be a pear of the 

 first quality. September. 



Monarch (Knight's). — This pear is repre- 

 sented in the Catalogue of the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society as of great merit — the 

 verij best of Mr. Knight's seedlings ; the 

 specimens hitherto shown as the Monarch, 

 have been unworthy of cultivation. The 

 last (making in all four kinds,) was a spe- 

 cimen presented by Hon. J. S. Cabot, of 

 Salem, from trees imported by Messrs. Ho- 



VEY & Co., Boston; this also proved to be 

 a worthless variety. Scions of the Monarch, 

 from the London Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, and from other fruit bearing trees 

 in England, have been received by the pre- 

 sident of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. We also have five trees of this 

 variety, from as many sources, and also a 

 promise of scions (this month) from a fruit 

 bearing tree, in one of the best private gar- 

 dens in the vicinity of London, with a de- 

 scription of the fruit. Hence, we trust the 

 true Monarch will (we fully believe it is 

 already in the hands of many cultivators in 

 this country,) find its way into our gardens, 

 and prove worthy of the reputation it has in 

 Europe. 



I have omitted to notice several new na- 

 tive seedling pears, which have claimed 

 my attention the past season. I may, pro- 

 bably, describe some of them another sea- 

 son, when their qualities shall have been 

 more fully developed. Your friend, 



Samuel Walker. 



Roxbury, Mass., Jan. lith, 1848. 



NOTES ON PEACHES, WITH A SELECT LIST BEST ADAPTED TO N. ENGLAND. 



BY ROBERT MANNING, SALEM, MASS. 



[We have great pleasure in presenting the 

 following notes to our readers. They are 

 the result of many years experience of fa- 

 ther and son, in Mr. Manning's widely 

 known " Pomological Garden." Ed.] 



Although the apple and pear, from being 

 in eating in their different varieties almost 

 throughout the year, are more valuable than 

 the peach, which does not offer the same 

 extent of season, I do not hesitate to express 

 a decided preference for the flavor of the 

 peach above any other fruit ; and I firmly 

 believe that, with proper attention to the 



I cultivation of the trees and selection of the 

 best varieties, the peaches of New-England 

 are unsurpassable. 



I have, in the specimen grounds of the 

 Pomological Garden, nearly 150 kinds of 

 peaches ; and the subjoined list is composed 

 of those which, out of 70 that have fruited, 

 appeared best adapted to this climate. I 

 begin with a list of ten varieties, arranged 

 in the order of their ripening, which, after 

 several years experience, I have found to 

 unite in the highest degree the qualities of 

 beauty, size and flavor in the fruit ; and pro- 

 ductiveness, vigor and hardiness in the tree. 



