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pear. Collateral aid to this is derived from 

 the size and color of the blossoms, and from 

 certain marks on the leaves. There are three 

 classes of peaches in reference to these leaf 

 marks. 



Class 1, Those whose leaves are deeply 

 and doubly serrated, (cut like saw-teeth,) 

 having no glands* 



Class 2. Those whose leaves are crenate 

 or serrulate, (that is having smaller rounded 

 teeth,) with globose (or round) glands. 



Class 3. These have crenate or serrulate 

 leaves like class 2d, with reniform (kidney- 

 shaped, or longish) glands. 



These marks upon the leaves of the peach 

 are invariable. The use of these to the 

 cultivator is obvious; for example, if any one 

 should buy a tree, say for the Early Craw* 

 ford variety, and its leaves either should have 

 no glands at all, or have those which are reni- 

 form, it would be certain that the the tree was 

 not what it was purchased for ; because the 

 Early Crawford always has globose glands. 



* The glands are of the size of a pins' head or a little larger. 

 They are easily discoverable upon that part of the stem of the 

 leaf where it begins to widen out into the leaf, and just beyond 

 that point, on the edges of the leaf. 



