604 THE PEACH. 



Fruit large, roundish oval. Suture well marked. Skin covered 

 with a gi'ay down, whitish yellow, deep purple in the sun. Flesh deep 

 yellow, purplish next the stone. Freestone. September. ("Verg.) 



Clinton. 



A native variety, of second-rate flavor. Leaves with globose glands. 

 Flowei's large. 



Fruit of medium size, roundisli, a little depressed at the top, but 

 nearly without suture. Skin pale yellowish white, with a red cheek 

 marked by broken stripes of dull red. Flesh scarcely stained at the 

 stone, juicy and good. Last of August. Freestone. 



Cole's Early Eed. 



An American Peach, which is a very fruitful and excellent variety 

 for market cultiire. Leaves with globose glands. Flowers small. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish, with but little suture. Skin pale 

 in the shade, but nearly all covered with red, becoming dark red on the 

 sunny side. Flesh melting, juicy, rich, and very sprightly. Beginning 

 to the middle of August. Freestone. 



Columbia. 

 Indian Peach. Pace. Mulatto. 



The Columbia is a singular and pec\iliar Peach. It was raised by 

 Mr. Coxe, the author of the first American work on fruit-trees, from a 

 seed brought from Georgia. It is a very excellent fruit, which every 

 amateur will desire to have in his garden. The tree is not a very rapid 

 grower, and bears only moderate crops, being, of course, all the less 

 subject to speedy decay. The young wood is purple. Leaves with 

 reniform glands. Flowers small. 



Fruit large, globular, broad and much depi-essed, the suture distinct, 

 extending half way rotind. Skin rough and rather thick, dull dingy 

 red, sprinkled with spots and streaks of darker red. Flesh bright yel- 

 low, of the texture, as Coxe remarks, of a very ripe pine-apple, rich, 

 juicy, and of very excellent flavor. Ripens from the beginning to tho 

 middle of September. Freestone. 



Columbus, June. 



Glands globose. Flowers small. 



Fruit medium to large, flattened or slightly hollowed at the apex. 

 Suture shallow. Skin pale yellowish white, with a rich red cheek. 

 Flesh slightly red at the stone, melting, juicy, and high-flavored, excel- 

 lent. Pipens here in Georgia 20th June. Free. (White's Gard.) 



Comet. 



Raiseii by Thomas Rivers, of England, from the Salway. Glands 

 reniform. Flowers small. 



Fruit large, round. Skin pale yellow, with a crimson cheek. Flesh 

 pale yellow, separating freely from the stone, juicy, melting. Early 

 October. (Hogg.) 



