£Jditorlal JVotes. 155 



Next Meetinff, American Pomologicnl Society, 



Western Horticulturists are already discussing the place for holding the meeting 

 of the American Pomological Society in 1875, and Chicago is unanimously com- 

 mended as the most fitting place. We approve the choice. 



The Jieiitrice IPctich. 



A Maryland cultivator says that the peach growers of the United States are 

 particularly indebted to Thomas llivers, fcr his success in producing an early variety 

 that is intrinsically good. 



In the Beatrice we have the result of his hybridizing his very superior Early 

 Silver Peach, with the new White Nectarine, and it is all that the grower can desire 

 in an early Peach, being, though rather small, of beautiful color, agreeable flavor, 

 and a sound, healthy bearer, and possesses remarkable keeping qualities, ripening, 

 whether with Mr. Rivers, under glass, or in this country, where it has been cultivated, 

 fully two weeks earlier than Hale's Early, which has been hitherto regarded as the 

 earliest Peach. He has two other varieties that are second only to the Beatrice, 

 the Early Louise and Early Ptivers, both of fine quality, and in ripening follow the 

 Beatrice in the order in which they are named ; and both are earlier than Troth's 

 Early, which is usually cultivated as the best early variety. These new varieties of 

 Mr. llivers' have been imported by some of our enterprising peach-growers, and will 

 furnish the lover of this delicious fruit an opportunity to gratify their taste much 

 earlier in the season than they could have done but for the skill and enterprise of 

 this intelligent orchardist of England. 



Successful. 



The public may not be generally aware of the success of the new paper. Ladies'' 

 Floral Cabinet. In six months time it had reached a paying circulation, and now 

 (only one and a half years old) has a larger subscription list than any horticultural 

 journal ever gained in history, 17,000 copies of January number being printed to fill 

 orders. It is still growing very rapidly. 



Jilood-Leaved Vench. 



The Gardener^ s Monthly illustrates and describes this new peach with ornamental 

 foliage. An account is given of its origin worthy of the days of Mythology. "• The 

 variety was found on the battle field of Fort Donelson, in Kentucky, and the 

 Southern papers tell that a Southern general, wounded to death, sucked the juice of 

 a peach, and threw the stone into the little pool of his blood by the side of him, 

 from which sprang this tree with blood-like leaves." Mr. Berckmans, in the Rural 

 Carolinian^ thus describes it. "In the early portion of the year, its foliage is of a 

 deep blood-red color, but gradually fades as the weather becomes warmer, when it 

 assumes a dull green appearance. Fruit medium, slightly oblong, somewhat 

 flattened ; skin white, with a pale red wart, and a few pale red spots or stripes ; 

 flesh white, juicy, well-flavored ; clingstone ; ripens beginning to middle of August. 

 We would class it as very good in flavor, but deficient in size." The Gardener's 

 Monthly says it ripens in Philadelphia the last of September, and that when making 

 second growth in August, the leaves are nearly as brilliant as in spring. This may 

 prove an acquisition for the lawn. 



Vuii Jiuren's Golden Dwarf Vench. 



A few years ago, quite a sensation was excited in the horticultural world by the 

 introduction of the above peach. The interest did not attach to the fruit so much 

 as to the tree, as on account of its dwarf habit, it was said that it could be easily 

 protected from the severity of the winter. We believe that it amounted to but 

 little, practically, and that no one made a fortune by raising fruit of that variety. 



We have just tested a specimen — the first we ever saw, and find it quite a large, 

 oblong peach, shaped and pointed like the Crawford's Early; of a dull yellowish 

 color ; flesh deep yellow ; rather insipid ; ripe the middle of October. It is a cling, 

 and would be hardly tolerable, if ripening earlier in the season when good peaches 

 abound. — American Rural Home. 



