1876.] 



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other fruit that they can swallow. — Centreville 

 Record. 



The Early Peaches. — The desire of the public 

 to know about the early peaches, now closely 

 rivaling each other for superiority, is intense. It 

 is very difficult to settle contending claims, and 

 among so many friends it is not pleasant to be 

 the referee; but it is our misfortune to be in this 

 position, and we have no choice but to decide to 

 the best of our ability. We have had the chance 

 to test this season the following, all grown 

 within sixty miles of each other, and without 

 going into details, must say that for earliness we 

 believe them to stand as follows: 1. Downing; 

 2. Saunders; 3. Alexander; 4. Musser ; 5. Ams- 

 den; 6. Beatrice; 7. Wilder; 8. Hales' Early. 

 We believe these will ripen in the order named 

 if growing all near each other. 



Now as to quality, we would put first No. 4, 

 then as follows in order, No. 3, 2, 1, 6, 7. 



In size we should put the numbers in the fol- 

 lowing order, 7, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6. 



All this is subject to future revision, but it 

 strikes us this way at present. 



C!oLORADO Cabbage. — The Saguache Chronicle 

 gives some interesting facts regarding Mr. Stoll- 

 steiner's farming operations in the upper valley 

 of the Rio Grande in Southwestern Colorado. 

 Last year he raised Marblehead mammoth cab- 

 bages that weighed thirty-five pounds each. 



NEW FRUITS & VEGETABLES. 



Brigos' Red May Peach. — From John Rock, 

 San Jose, Cal., June 22d. — Round, very white 

 skin with red cheek, 7 to 8 inches in circumfer- 

 ence, rather tart in flavor, probably from the 

 distance requiring them to be gathered before 

 quite ripe, but very juicy and refreshing ; flesh 

 and stone greenish white. This was as large as 

 any of our best peaches, and equal to the 

 average in general qualities. It was the lar- 

 gest early peach we have ever seen, and if in this 

 climate it should prove as large, and as good, it 

 would soon put all those we have aside. The ac- 

 tual value, however, of course depends on how 

 it coinpares with our popular kinds, when grown 

 side by side in this latitude, or with others in 

 California. Of this last point Mr. Briggs says : 



" I have been requested by John Rock, of San 

 Jose, Cal., to send you by mail specimens of 



the Red May peach. It originated with me. 

 and is fully twenty days earlier than Hale's 

 EarlJ^ We have had a remarkably wet sea- 

 son and the peach on that account is not 

 as well flavored as usual. The Red May has 

 been placed on the San Francisco market for the 

 last four years, on from the 27th to the 30th. 

 There have been at the date of this over 5,000 

 bushels of the Red May placed on this market. 

 Last season they were all gone on the 18th of 

 June." 



The Hamxer Peach. — Mrs. M. E. H., Galves- 

 ton, Texas, gives the following account of this 

 variety : " Hoping that I have something new 

 in the way of a very fine late peach, I thought I 

 would give you its history thus far, and see if you 

 could give me any light upon its name or merits, 

 if not a new peach. It being very late here, and 

 hai'dy and large, I think it is just the peach for 

 a very late, large, good sort for market when all 

 others have become scarce ; and as it is very 

 showy, I think it would command a good price. 



" It is a seedling of the cling variety. It came 

 up in my garden voluntarily three years ago last 

 April, and from its thrifty and vigorous appear- 

 ance, I allowed it to remain. It bore two peaches 

 at two years of -age, but my little ones being able 

 to reach them, they were i»ot allowed to ripen. 

 Last year it had about five pecks of the finest 

 peaches it has ever been my pleasure to see or 

 taste. Wlien very green, some two months be- 

 fore ripening, they were exhibited at the Texas 

 Horticultural and Pomological Society, at Hous- 

 ton, where they were universally admired, and 

 had honorable mention made of them. When 

 ripe, I could have sold them readily at twenty- 

 five cents a piece. I had one dozen picked pro- 

 miscuously, and weighed on a druggist's scales, 

 and they weighed from 6 to 10 ounces each. 

 They are very oblong when young, with a very 

 decided neck, and tip on the end, but are almost 

 round when matured. Very slightly pinkish in 

 color, sweet and very juicy. Another very 

 strange circumstance in regard to this tree is, 

 that whilst six others in the yard, and not over 

 40 feet from it, some of them younger, and some 

 older, all as well, or better protected from the 

 September storms were killed, this tree sur- 

 vived, and is in vigorous growth, but with very 

 few peaches on it this year." 



CuiMberland Triumph STRAWBERRY.-"We gave 

 a figure of this new variety, last year, showing its 

 large size, and from a personal examination of 



