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FRUIT BOOK. 



sirable kinds, which we have not as yet fruited ; 

 among them are the following : 



Dunmore, 



Althorp Crassane, 



Conte de Lamy, 



Passans du Portugal, 



Ambrosea, 



Knight's Monarch, 



Osband's Summer, 



Oswego Beurre, 



Onondaga, 



Belmont, 



Beurre Crapaud, 



Bringewood, 



Broom Park, 



Brougham, 



Shobden Court, 



Oakley Park Bergamotte, 



Duchesse de Mars, 



Eyewood, 



Gendesheim, 



Moccas, 



Ne Plus Meuris, 



Parmentier, 



Pomoise, 



Suffolk Thorn, 



Welbeck, 



Yat, 



Beurre Langelier, 



Beurre Spence, 



Duchesse d'Orleans, 



Wilhelmine, 



Saint Mark, 



De Lepine. 



THE PEACH. 



The peach is generally supposed to have origi- 

 nated in Persia and China ; some, however, have 

 considered it really indigenous to America. Hen- 

 nipen, who has given us the first description of 

 the regions of Louisiana, in his voyage down the 

 Mississippi, describes the peach he observed in 

 all parts of those regions, as being of immense 

 size, which has led some to conclude, that as those 

 latitudes correspond with the part of Asia, where 

 this tree is deemed indigenous, they are natural to 

 Louisiana. Botanists, in common with the French 

 cultivators, regard the peach and nectarine as 

 merely varieties, and not distinct species. Scien- 

 tific cultivators of Europe have endeavored to 

 make an arrangement of this fruit into divisions 

 and subdivisions. With us this would seem to 

 be a difficult process, as thousands of sub-varie- 

 ties are constantly being produced from the seed. 



