200 PEACH CULTURE. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



FANCY VARIETIES. 

 VAN BUREN'S GOLDEN DWARF. 



Of all fancy varieties, Van Burerts Golden Dwarf is 

 the most beautiful as well as the most valuable. We have 

 never seen it cultivated, except in pots ; but in this form, 

 when laden with bright, rich and luscious fruit, it is really 

 exquisite. It combines beauty and utility in an extraor- 

 dinary degree, and alike delights both the palate and 

 the eye. The leaves are long, deep-green, and so closely 

 set as almost to conceal the branches ; and they are very 

 seldom shed until autumn frosts. Were the tree entire- 

 ly destitute of fruit, its graceful form and elegant foliage 

 would give it a place amongst ornamental shrubs of the 

 first class. But when we add to this, its rich clusters of 

 full-sized, gold and carmine peaches, coyly showing their 

 rosy cheeks, from under their green sheen, redolent with 

 nourishment, health and joy, it becomes a pure delight 

 ,an admiration. We have seen it at the state fairs, and in 

 the show windows on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, 

 where it always attracted attention, and elicited praise. 

 We have looked at it again and again, but never grew 

 tired. In horticulture it is a gem. 



A cultivator says, " It seldom attains a growth of more 

 than three feet in height, the original being only twenty- 

 eight inches when four years old. The buds are so close- 



