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This has been a favorite variety in both France and 

 England for more than a century, and has elicited the 

 highest praise from these quarters. It has also been very 

 popular in some parts of our own country, but is not now 

 extensively cultivated on the Peninsula ; but whether this 

 is owing to a want of adaptation to our soil or climate, to 

 the superiority of other sorts of its season, or to the lack 

 of friends to disseminate it, we will not say. Its undoubt- 

 ed popularity in some localities, and for a long time, is 

 fully attested, not only by the cumulative testimony of 

 many witnesses, but by an unusually long list of syno- 

 nyms. Of these there are more than twenty. 



In New England, it is a favorite for cultivation under 

 glass, and in Georgia, in the orchard. 



Tree medium, or large, hardy, and a regular bearer. 

 Fruit large, roundish, somewhat depressed, with hollow 

 at the top ; skin, pale, greenish-yellow, mottled with red, 

 with a red cheek, sometimes taking a purple tinge. Flesh 

 yellowish-white, red at the stone, melting, juicy, rich, and 

 vinous. Stone small and rough. Flowers large. Season^ 

 August 10th to 15th. 



LARGE EARLY YORK. 



Early Rareripe, Livingston's Rareripe, 



Haines' Early Red, New York Rareripe, 



Honest John, Walter's Early. 



This is a very popular peach wherever known, and its 

 popularity is well deserved. It comes in immediately 

 after the Troth, and by many is regarded as the very best 

 of its season. 



Tree large, vigorous, and healthy. Leaves large, with 

 globose glands, sometimes obscure. Flowers small. 

 Fruit above medium, round, divided into unequal halves 

 by a well defined suture ; skin pale, yellowish-white, deli- 

 cately dotted with bright red, deepening and thickening 

 into a fine blush on the side next the sun. Flesh pale 



