PEACHES. 485 



Leaves with kidney -shaped glands. 



A. Freestone. CHANCELLORS. 

 Belle Chevreuse 

 Belle de la Croix 

 Chancellor 

 Comet 

 Early Louise 

 Golden Eagle 

 Lady Palmerston 

 Magdala 

 Prince of Wales 



Reine des Vergers 



Rosanna 



Salwey 



Sieulle 



Small Mignonne 



B Clingstone. CATHERINES. 

 Catherine 

 Incomparable 



Mr. R. D. Blackmore, the accomplished author of " Lorna Doone," " Alice 

 Lorraine," and other charming works of a similar nature, has for many years cul- 

 tivated Peaches in his well-walled garden at Teddington, and his experience of 

 the behaviour of many of the varieties in the open air of the fertile valley of the 

 Thames is therefore of great value. Mr. Blackmore has very kindly favoured me 

 with some notes, which I have added to my descriptions. 



A BEG (Mignonne a Bee ; Pourpree a Bee). Fruit, large, roundish, 

 uneven in its outline, terminating at the apex in a bold, blunt nipple, 

 and marked with a shallow suture, which is higher on one side. Skin, 

 remarkably thin and tender, of a lemon-yellow colour, with crimson 

 dots on the shaded side, but covered with a crimson cheek and darker 

 dots of the same colour on the side exposed to the sun. Flesh, white, 

 with a very slight tinge of red next the stone, from which it separates 

 very freely ; remarkably tender and melting, sweet, and with some- 

 what of a strawberry flavour. Flowers, large. Leaves, with round 

 glands. 



This is a very fine and early peach. It ripens in the third week of 

 August. 



This originated at Ecully, near Lyons. 



Abricotee. See Yellow Admirable. 



ACTON SCOT. Fruit, small, narrow, and depressed at the top. 

 Skin, pale yellowish white, marbled with bright red next the sun. 

 Suture, well marked. Flesh, pale throughout, melting, rich, and 

 sugary. Flowers, large. Leaves, with round glands. 



A delicious little peach. Ripe in the end of August. 



Admirable. See Early Admirable. 



ALBATROSS. Fruit, very large, three inches and a quarter wide 

 and two inches and three-quarters high ; round and symmetrical, 

 depressed at the crown, and terminating in a small nipple, which is in 

 the centre of the depression. Suture, shallow, distinct at the apex 

 and gradually becoming less so towards the base. Skin, greenish 



