230 PEACHES. 



juicy, white, tinged with lines of red near the stone ; 

 the juice lively, delicate and of a pleasant taste : it 

 ripens in October. fig. 15. 



38. SCARLET PEACH. 



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Is cultivated merely for preserves and pickles ; 

 morfe for the colour than any particular excellence : 

 it is called Sanguinole by the French gardeners. There 

 is a scarlet clingstone which has less flavour even than 

 the clear- stone. 



The term Pavie is used by the French writers to 

 denote a clingstone ; the clearstone fruits only they call 

 peaches. It is usual to save peach stones in earth 

 through the winter, exposed in the open air to the 

 frost : in the spring, those which do not open from the 

 effect of the frost, are carefully cracked by a blow on 

 the side, so as not to injure the kernel: these kernels are 

 then planted like beans, in rows four feet asunder, and 

 one foot apart in the rows when sprouted, they are 

 cultivated by the plough and harrow, and inoculated 

 the first autumn those which fail the first season are 

 budded in the second, about the first of August in 

 one year, if they grow well, they will attain in good 

 ground the height of six and seven feet ; they are 

 in the fittest state to plant out in oue year from the 



