98 FRUIT BOOK. 



No. 12. Orange Freestone. This peach is of 

 medium size ; the form round ; the skin a deep 

 orange yellow ; flesh yellow and sweet, but rather 

 dry ; a beautiful and good fruit. Ripe in Sep- 

 tember. 



No. 13. Congress Clingstone. The size is 

 large, form round ; skin yellow and bright red ; 

 flesh rich and excellent. Ripe in September. 



No. 14. Oldmixon Clingstone. Large, round 

 and rather flat ; skin whitish yellow, with a bright 

 red cheek, beautifully spotted with red dots. Of 

 all the clingstone peaches this is the most delicious ; 

 a great bearer, ripening its fruit gradually in Sep- 

 tember. We have cultivated this peach, and the 

 Catharine and old Newington, and could never per- 

 ceive any difference in the fruit or trees. 



No. 1 5. Heath Clingstone. Fruit large, ob- 

 long ; skin of a delicate cream color, sometimes with 

 a faint blush on the sunny side ; flesh rich, very juicy, 

 and fine flavored. Ripe in October, and we have 

 eaten them produced in our own orchard in the 

 highest perfection, on Thanksgiving day, Novem- 

 ber 30th. 



[This sort rarely ripens upon open standards.] 



The nectarine and the apricot, so nearly allied to 

 the peach, we should not recommend for cultivation 

 upon standards, but inoculated upon the plum stock, 



