PEACHES. CLASS I. 193 



53. *SMOCK FREE. 



Very large and first-rate; some have measured 12 inches 

 iu circuintereuce ; oblong ; pale yellow in the shade, dark 

 red next the sun ; flesh juicy, fine, a little acid. One of the 

 best of all very late peaches, and so esteemed at Mid- 

 dletown, New Jersey, from whence, and from Mr. Beers, 

 I received the fruit. It there ripens from the last of Sep- 

 tember to the 15th of October. Generally this fruit will 

 ripen well in our more northern climate; but in some years 

 it may prove too late. 



54. CHINA FLAT PEACH. Hort. Trans. Braddick. 

 JAVA PEACH. 



A most singular and curious peach, which is said to be 

 much cultivated and esteemed in China. The diameter 

 from the eye to the stalk is less than three quarters of 

 an inch, and consists wholly of the stone and a skin which 

 covers it. The thickness of its sides is one inch and an 

 eighth, while its transverse diameter is two inches and a 

 halt. The skin is pale yellow, mottled with red next the 

 sun, and covered with hue down ; the flesh pale yellow, a 

 beautiful radiated circle of fine red surrounding the stone, 

 which is flatly compressed, small, rough, and irregular. 

 The fruit is melting and good, being sweet and juicy, with 

 a little Noyeau flavor and bitter aroma. In 1840, this 

 curious variety was here received by a renewed importa- 

 tion from Europe, and a first-rate source. [Leaves R. 

 Flowers L.J 



55. ISPAHAN. N. Dull. PI. xxiv. 



FKCHEII I>'!SPAHAN. 76. 



This singular tree was discovered in 1799, by Brugniere 

 and Olivier, at Ispahan, the capital of Persia, in the vast 

 Royal Gardens, where were concentrated most of the fruits 

 of Asia. The branches are very slender and numerous, 

 ihe leaves very narrow, finely serrated, of a delicate green 

 color, and unlike those of any other variety known. The 

 fruit is nearly spherical : the skin of a whitish green, 

 slightly downy; flesh greenish white, melting, and sepa- 

 rates from the stone ; juice abundant and delicious. 



53. YELLOW ADMIRABLE, OR APRICOT PEACH 



Bon Jard. 1828, p. 293. 



ABRICOTEE, ADMIRABLE JAUNE, PECHE D'ORANGE. 

 GROSSE JAUNE, PECHE DE BURAI, SANDAME HERMAPHRODITE. 

 The leaves have reniform glands ; flowers large ; the 

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