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21. Swalch. This is a fine, pleasant-flavoured 

 peach. Ripens early in September. 



22. Teton de Venus Is a fruit of middling size 

 and longish shape; of a pale red next the sun; 

 flesh melting, white ; juice sugary, and not without 

 flavour: ripens the end of September. The tree 

 is a free bearer on a warm, light soil, but the fruit 

 comes to perfection only in fine seasons. 



23. Vanguard Is a good peach, ripens about the 

 middle of September. 



24. White Magdalen. The fruit is of a middle 

 size, round, with a deep furrow ; of a pale colour, 

 and the flesh white to the stone ; melting, juicy, 

 with considerable flavour. Ripening in August. 



25. White Rareripe, or " White cheek Malacotan 

 peach Sometimes called the freestone heath : is 

 a fruit of uncommon excellence. The size is large ; 

 the flesh a rich white, inclining to yellow, melting, 

 rich, and finely-flavoured ; firm, like the flesh of a 

 clearstone plum : the skin is a pale yellowish white : 

 the stone frequently separates on the opening of the 

 peach, leaving the kernel exposed ; the shells ad- 

 hering to the flesh, though a freestone. It is the 

 most admired fruit of the season, which is in Au- 

 gust." (Coxe.) 



The following fact has come to my knowledge 

 since writing the foregoing. 



. " The cultivation of this tree has become very 

 interesting to gardeners in the vicinity of this city, 

 (New York.) A very simple mode of preserving 

 and restoring them when apparently nearly destroy- 

 ed by the disease so fatal to them in this quarter, 

 and commonly called the " yellows," has been ac- 

 cidentally discovered by a gentleman in this city. 

 A statement of the fact as it occurred will convey 

 all necessary information. In the fall of 1818, a very 

 fine tree standing in his yard, was apparently dead 



