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30. Amygdalus Persica : Double Crimson Peach. 

 From China. (See page 246 of this volume.) 







Tliis plant has presented the peculiarity of producing very 

 generally more than one fruit to each flower, as in the annexed 

 cut, where out of three flowers, one has two young peaches and 

 another three. In the case of the double fruit, each half re- 

 mained separate ; in the other, two had grown together, and if 

 they had ripened a double- headed cluster would have been pro- 

 duced. Similar cases have been seen, but it is a novelty to have 

 a plant in which there is a natural predisposition to produce 

 anomalous appearances of such a kind. 



July 10, 1848. 



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