THE PEACH. 95 



Mr. George Lindley, whose arrangement is the best that 

 has hitherto been published, enumerates 60 kinds of 

 peaches and 28 of nectarines. In the Horticultural 

 Society's Catalogue the names of 183 peaches, and of 65 

 nectarines, are recorded. "We doubt not but that in 

 America, where the trees are commonly raised from kefrrels, 

 and grown as standards, endless varieties and sub-varieties 

 might be collected. To enumerate even the limited number 

 existing in Britain would far exceed our limits ; we shall, 

 therefore, notice only a few of those which are most distinct 

 and best adapted to the English climate. 



PEACHES. 



Red Nutmeg, or Avant rouge of the French. — This is 

 one of the earliest peaches, ripening in England about the 

 beginning of August. The fruit small ; color pale yellow 

 towards the wall, bright vermillion next the sun ; pulp 

 white, but red at the core ; the juice rich and musky. The 

 tree is an abundant bearer. 



Grosse Mignonne, L. Hort. Cat., or NeWs Early Pur- 

 ple. — Fruit large ; skin pale yellow, and deep purple next 

 the sun ; flesh melting ; juice plentiful, and of delicious 

 flavor. The tree is a good bearer, and forces well, but the 

 fruit does not bear carriage. It ripens in the end of Au- 

 gust and beginning of September. 



Madeleine de Courson ; Red Magdalen of Miller. — 

 Blossoms large ; fruit rather below the middle size ; color 

 yellowish-white next the wall, beautiful red next the sun ; 

 flesh white, with very little red at the stone ; juice rich and 

 vinous. Tree a good bearer ; fruit ripening about the be- 

 ginning of September. " An excellent peach," says Mr. 

 Lindley, " and ought to be found in every collection." 



