160 PEACHES. 



Downton Castle, who sent an account of it, with two 

 others, to the Horticultural Society, Aug. 21, 1815. 



8. FLAT PEACH OF CHINA. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 

 512. t. 19. G. Lindl in Hort. Trans. Vol. V. p. 549. 



Java Peach. Ib. 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers large. 

 The Fruit of this most singular peach is flatted, and com- 

 pletely concave at both the apex and the stalk. It is about 

 two inches and a half in diameter, and scarcely three quar- 

 ters of an inch thick, through the eye to the stalk, which 

 thickness consists only of the stone and skin. The crown 

 of the fruit looks like a brottd and rather hollow eye, of an 

 irregular five-angled shape, surrounded by the appearance of 

 the remains of the segments of a calyx : the whole surface 

 of this eye is roughly marked with small irregular warted 

 lines, like the crown of a Medlar. The colour of the Skin 

 is pale yellow, mottled or speckled with red on the part ex- 

 posed to the sun. Flesh pale yellow, having a beautiful ra- 

 diated circle of red surrounding the stone, and extending far 

 into the fruit. The consistence and flavour of the flesh is 

 that of a good melting peach, being sweet and juicy, with a 

 little noyeau flavour. 



It first ripened its fruit in this country at Thames Ditton, 

 and was sent to the Horticultural Society by John Braddick, 

 Esq., in 1819. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 512. 



9. FORD'S SEEDLING. G. Lindl. in Hart. Trans. Vol. 

 v. p. 539. 



Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large,, 

 of a beautiful pale rose colour. Fruit middle sized, a little 

 narrowed at the apex, and having a slight suture. Skin yel- 

 lowish green, marbled with bright red on the sunny side. 



Flesh yellowish green, quite to the stone, from which it 

 separates. Juice plentiful, of a rich poignant flavour. 



Ripe the middle of September. 



10.* MALTA. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 

 539. Pom. Mag. t. 15. 



Peche Malte. " Duhamel, No. 11. 



Peche de Malte. Lelieur. 



Malte de Normandie. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 91. 



Balle da Paris. Bon. Jard. 1827. p. 276. 



Italian Peach. Miller, No. 12. According to the Pom. 

 JV/ao*. 



Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large, 

 pale. Fruit middle sized, generally depressed at the apex> 



