PEACHES. 437 



AMERICAN NEWINGTON (Early Newington Freestone); Fruit, 

 large, round, and marked with a suture, which is higher on one side. 

 Skin, yellowish white, dotted with red in the shade, and bright red 

 next the sun. Flesh, white, red at the stone, to which some strings 

 adhere ; juicy, rich, and vinous. Flowers, small. Leaves, with round 

 glands. 



Ripe in the end of August. 



AMSDEN. Fruit, medium size ; roundish and somewhat flattened, 

 with a shallow suture issuing from the depressed apex. Skin, greenish 

 white in the shade, and bright red on the side next the sun. Flesh, 

 white, pale even to the stone, from which it separates freely ; very 

 tender and juicy and with a rich flavour. Flowers, large, very pale. 

 Leaves, with kidney-shaped glands. 



An American peach remarkable for its earliness, being a week earlier 

 than Early Beatrice and a fortnight before Hale's Early. 



Anne. See Early Anne. 

 Avant. See Grosse Mignonne. 

 Avant Blanche. See White Nutmeg. . 

 Avant Peche de Troyes. See Red Nutmeg. 



Avant Rouge. See lied Nutmeg. 



BARRINGTON (Buckingham Mignonne; Colonel Ansley's). Fruit, 

 large, roundish ovate, and terminated by a prominent nipple at the 

 apex. Skin, downy, yellowish green, marbled and streaked, with 

 broken streaks of red next the sun. Suture, well denned. Flesh, yel- 

 lowish, slightly tinged with red at the stone, rich, vinous, and of first- 

 rate quality. Flowers, large. Leaves, with round glands. 



Ripens in the middle of September. 



The tree is very hardy, vigorous, and generally a good bearer. Mr. 

 Blackmore says it is a shy bearer and seldom ripens thoroughly at 

 Teddington. 



This is one of the best raid-season peaches, and bears carriage well. It was 

 raised by a Mr. Barririgton, of Burwood, in Surrey, early in the present century, 

 and I do not find it mentioned in any nursery catalogue prior to 1826. 



BELLE BAUCE (Belle Bawse ; Pourpree Hative Vineme; Pour- 

 pree Vineuse ; Vineuse de Fromentin; Vineuse Hative). Fruit, large 

 and somewhat flattened at the extremities, marked with a distinct 

 suture, which is considerably higher on one side than the other. Skin, 

 thin and delicate, covered with fine down, very highly coloured almost 

 over the entire surface with deep red. Flesh, white with a rosy tint 

 round the stone, tender, melting, and vinous. Flowers, large. Leaves, 

 with round glands. 



A delicious peach ; a variety of Grosse Mignonne, but considerably 

 larger, and ripens from ten to fourteen days later, in the middle of 



