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perience, that as soon as a tree is discovered to pos- 

 sess thecharacteristicksof the disease, which is known 

 by the leaves putting on a sickly yellow appearance, 

 but of which the premature ripening of the fruit* is a 

 decisive proof; it should be marked, so as to be re- 

 moved the ensuing autumn, which must be done with- 

 out fail, for if left again to bloom, it would impart the 

 disease to many others in its vicinity. 



"A good peach possesses these qualities : the flesh 

 is firm ; the skin is thin, of a deep or bright red col- 

 our next the sun, and of a yellowish green in the 

 shade ; the pulp is of a yellowish colour, full of high- 

 ly flavoured juice ; the fleshy part thick, and the 

 stone small. They are generally divided into free, 

 stone and cling stone peaches. Those varieties, the flesh 

 of which separates readily both from the skin and 

 stone, are the proper peaches of the French, and are 

 by English gardeners termed free stones. Those with 

 a firm flesh, to which both the skin and the stone ad- 

 here, are the pavies of the French, and by English and 

 American gardeners named cling stones. 



LIST OF CHOICE PEACHES. 



From McMahon's American Gardener, and other sources. 



ALL the varieties, he observes, may be cultivated 

 to advantage in every state of the union, if soil and 

 exposure be given agreable to their nature and neces- 

 sities. 1. The Early Avant : 2. The White Nut- 

 meg ; 3. The Red Nutmeg ; 4. Early Mignonne ; 

 5. Early Ann ; 6. Early Newington ; 7. Early E- 

 Jizabeth-Town; 8. The White Magdalen ; 9. Red 

 Clingstone; 10. White Clingstone; 11. Kenne- 

 dy's Caroline ; 12. Royal George; 13. Oldmixon ; 

 14. Late Heath; 15. La Plata; 16. Georgia; 17. 



