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The Fhuit Chop in Western New York. — Apples, generally, are neither so abundant 

 nor so fine as usual ; a single orchard, or a few trees, here and there, are exce[)tions. The 

 crop of pears is much below that of last year. Peaches have surprised pe()i)lo by their 

 abundance and fine quality. Wo have been through New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 

 &c., in the midst of the peach season, and saw no finer fruit than has been sold here in 

 large quantities since the 10th of Sejitember. The worst feature in our i)each business 

 is, that it opens late. Early Yorh did not appear in market till the first week in Septem- 

 ber, and now (Sept. 13) CraiofonVs Early^ Large Early Yorl\ and others of the same 

 season, are coming in freely. Morris' Whites and Old Mlxons will not be ripe for a week 

 or ten days, and Craioford's Late Melocoton and Eed CheeTc Melocoton., will not be ripe 

 short of two weeks. It is interesting to observe that some orchards in which there was 

 a full crop last year, are entirely fruitless this, and others that bore none last, are laden this 

 season. Within a few miles we see some orchards bearing well, and others a total failure. 

 Our heaviest crops are in warm, sheltered situations, Avitliin a short distance of the shores 

 of Lake Ontario. 



A Handsome Peach Orchaed. — James M. Whitney, Esq., of Eochester, has a peach 

 orchard of upward of one thousand trees about half Avay between this city and Lake 

 Ontario, which we visited on the 13th September. The trees generally are in a vigorous 

 and healthy condition, and the crop very heavy. This orchard occui)ies a warm, sheltered 

 situation, and seems to have escaped the severe weatVier last spring, so ruinous to the peach 

 generally in this section. Among those particularly fine we noted Large Early Yorl'^ 

 Craztford''s Early Melocoton, Yellow Alberge, Jacques'' Rare Iii2ye, Morris'' White, Old 

 Mixon Free, and Crawford's Late Melocoton. Early Tillotson is an utter failure — thirty or 

 forty trees stand without a single fruit and nearly dead, in the midst of luxuriant and 

 heavilj^ laden trees of other varieties. The Bed Cheek Melocoton does not succeed well 

 here. Mr. Whitney has also a fine young peach orchard of some seven hundred trees 

 just beginning to bear. [■ 



A Chinese Peach. — In the June number of the Rortimilturistwo, published a note from 

 IIenky Lyons, Esq., of Columbia, S. C, describing a Chinese peach. We have now to 

 acknowledge his kindness in sending a pretty colored drawing of the same variety, repre- 

 senting it as medium in size, of a greenish straw color, marbled with red on one side near 

 the base. We believe it has not yet fruited in the north. Its beauty and excellence 

 recommend it to fruit growers in the south, wliere it appears to be perfectly at home. Mr. 

 Lyons accompanies the draAving with the folloAving note : 



I inclose you a drawing of the Chinese peach, which is a very correct copy, but smaller than 

 tlicy usually arc, which arose no doubt from the circumstance of our having no rain from the 10th 

 of March to the 10th of July; it did not ripen until the 24th. I am more confirmed every year 

 in the excellence of the variety. I omitted in my description stating the bloom was remarkably 

 large, as much so as the White Nutmeg. I will with pleasure, if you desire it, forward you 

 some buds. 



I was in hopes I would have been able to forward you some experience on the Crescent City 

 strawberry, but the drouth literally burnt them up, with the exception of a few plants which I 

 saved by continual watering. I very much fear, from what little experience I have had, tliey will 

 never do elsewhere what they do in Isew Orleans, we lacking two indispensables, viz: soil 

 climate. ILekey Lyons. — Columbia, August 8, 1853. 



