XVI. PEACHES. 



The difficulty of knowing Peaches by their fruit alone, without 

 attending to their leaves and flowers., accounts for the great 

 number of different names under which the principal sorts are 

 to be found. Suspicions may perhaps be excited as to the cor- 

 rectness of many of the synonyms now made, but it is found 

 impossible to arrive at any other conclusions than those here 

 adopted, after the strictest investigation of the leaves, flowers 

 and fruit and comparison of authorities. The abbreviations are 

 the same as those of Nectarines. 



