388 Peach-Growing 



before the twenty-third annual meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. It was exhibited also in 1857 ^ before 

 the same society under the name 'Shanghai' by Nahum 

 Stetson, Bridgewater, Mass. The name ' Bridgewater ' 

 was suggested for the variety at that meeting, but the name 

 died with the suggestion. We have been unable to trace 

 the exact history of these early New England introductions. 



"The second important introduction was made by Dr. 

 William A. W. Spottswood, of the United States Navy, 

 Fleet Surgeon of the East India or Asiatic Squadron from 

 1857 to 1860, and, so far as we know, is recorded here for the 

 first time. Dr. Spottswood brought a quantity of peach 

 stones from Japan in 1860, and presented them to the late 

 Judge Campbell, an enthusiastic amateur horticulturist of 

 Pensacola, Fla. Judge Campbell planted the seed, but was 

 soon obliged to leave his home on account of the evacuation 

 of Pensacola. On his return home in 1864 he found much 

 of the place destroyed and the fences burned, but by careful 

 treatment the peach seedlings grew into great vigor by 1867. 

 The trees w^ere then bearing, and some of the peaches meas- 

 ured ten and eleven inches in circumference. These seed- 

 ling trees were greatly admired by all who saw them, and 

 Judge Campbell gave buds to all who desired them." 



Some of the most important varieties at the present time 

 belong to this group. Besides the widely known progenitor 

 of this race, the Chinese Cling, there may be mentioned the 

 Elberta, Carman, Connet, Belle (Belle of Georgia), Family 

 Favorite, Greensboro, Hiley, Waddell, and others. 



It is probable, however, that a considerable proportion of 

 these varieties are crosses with Persian varieties. In most 



1 Rep. Mass. Hort. Soc, Sept. 5, 1857, in Hovey's Mag. Hort., 

 1853, p. 470. 



