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low, with a deep crimson blush. Flesh pale yellow, melting 

 and tender, juice abundant, very sweet and luscious ; it se- 

 parates from the stone, but not so easily as some sorts, ge- 

 nerally leaving a little of the flesh behind. The Stone is 

 quite small for the size of the fruit. 



Ripe second week in September. 



This is one of the finest of peaches at the season when in 

 perfection. I found this peach in my garden in 1 806. It 

 was undoubtedly a worked tree, and had been planted there. 

 Mr. Brevoort knew the Peach, and called it thvBoyce Peach. 

 He said it had been cultivated by Mr. Boyce, a Gardener 

 in New-York, many years before ; but where it originated 

 he could not tell. This kind should be planted in every gar- 

 den as a very superior sort. I sent young trees of it to the 

 London Hort. Society in 1823. One very peculiar trait in 

 the character of this Peach is its rapid growth ; when the fruit 

 is nearly ripe, it is only of an ordinary size, but in the course 

 often days the size will have doubled. The perfectly ripe 

 fruit generally weighs nine ounces. 



69. RED CHEKK MALACOTAN. Coxe's View, No. 28. 



Hogg's Mallacotan. 



Lady Gallatin. 



Probyn Peach, and other names. 



Fruit above a medium size, inclining to the oval at top, 

 fuller at the bottom, in shape very similar to the variety of 

 Lemon Clingstone, called Pine Apple Cling. The Skin 

 a fine yellow, with a deep red cheek ; the Flesh of a deep 

 yellow, with a little red close to the stone, and from 

 which it separates freely. The Juice not very abundant, 

 but sweet and very fine, with a little of that pleasant acidity 

 of the Lemon Clingstone. 



Ripe first week in September. 



Mr. William Prince, the senior proprietor of the Flushing 

 Nurseries, informed mo, that this Peach was first discovered 

 by him in his Peach Orchard in rather a singular manner : 

 He had sent his man to gather some Lemon Clingstones ; 

 in examining them, he found that some of them were free 

 stones. On being informed that they all came off the same 

 tree, he went and found that one part of the tree was Lemon 

 Clingstone the other | art probably a limb that had sprung 

 from the natural tree below the graft) this fruit ; he gave 

 the name as above, and innoculated from it. I have known 

 this kind thirty years ; and as a proof of the fruit having 



