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rather a deep suture, which is sometimes 

 slightly irregular at the top. The skin is 

 somewhat downy, of a dark blood colour 

 on one side, and red, somewhat marbled 

 with yellow, on the other. The flesh parts 

 very freely from the stone where it is red, 

 and is yellow elsewhere. It is juicy and 

 rich, and quite unique in flavor, resembling 

 that of an apricot. Its flowers are small 

 and pink coloured. Its leaves have glo' 

 bose glands ; and it ripened last year three 

 weeks earlier than the present 1st of Sep- 

 tember. It is a most abundant bearer, even 

 on young trees, and is often produced in 

 clusters of four or five. We find this peach 



different from the old Galaude, but know 

 nothing whatever of its history. It is, per- 

 haps, not so high flavored as George 4th, 

 but its peculiar apricot flavor and its great 

 productiveness, render it scarcely less de- 

 sirable to the lover of good fruit. 



Parsons & Co. 



Flushing, Sept. 1, 1848. 



[The specimens arrived in excellent or- 

 der. The variety is correctly described by 

 Messrs. P. & Co., and we found it one of 

 the highest flavored yellow fleshed peaches 

 that we have yet seen. Ed.] 



THE MEADOW PARK AT aUNESBO. 



[see I'KONTISPIECE.] 



All our country readers have heard of the 

 Genesee valley, its beauty, and its fertility. 



The great agricultural estate of the 

 WadsWorth family, is the pride and centre 

 of this precious valley. That magnificent 

 tract, of thousands of acres of the finest 

 land, which surpasses in extent and value 

 many principalities of the old world ; those 

 broad meadows, where herds of the finest 

 cattle crop the richest herbage, or rest 

 under the deep shade of giant trees ', that 

 rich spectacle of immense fields of grain, or 

 luxuriant broad-foliaged maize, waving in 

 the wind and ripening in the sunshine ; all 

 this is felt by every visitor, to realise even 

 an ideal picture of agricultural life. 



There is something stirring in the his- 

 tory of this immense landed estate. Over 

 the whole of its broad surface, as in the 

 pages of a great folio, are Written the 

 genius, the practical sagacity, and the taste 

 of the family which has formed it. It is. 



too, a record truly American, of the subju- 

 gation of the forest, of the courage and ad- 

 vance of pioneer life, and of the wonderful 

 progress and present prosperity of that still 

 youthful region. 



A little more than fifty years ago, the 

 whole of western New-York was a wilder- 

 ness. The Little Falls of the Mohawk waa 

 the western limit of cultivated lands. A 

 couple of white families only, had estab- 

 lished themselves where the populous 

 cities of Utica and Geneva now stand. 



In 1790 the two brothers Wadsworth, 

 educated and sagacious men, foreseeing 

 the future value of this western wilderness, 

 sold their patrimonial estate in New-Eng- 

 land, and, with a band of hardy axemen, 

 penetrated the wilds, and settled where 

 Geneseo now stands. 



Of the energy, intelligence, and practical 

 skill, with which their operations were there 

 conducted, this vast estate, alone, is a grand 



