PEACHES. 187 



originated here, there are a host of names from seed of this 

 kind. The best of them is one that came up accidentally 

 in the garden of Mr. Thomas Hogg, Florist, and is quite as 

 good as the original ; and I think rather earlier. This is the 

 variety I now work from as the best: some of the varieties 

 are very indifferent. 



70. EARLY ORANGE PEACH. Nursery Catalogue. 

 Yellow Rare Ripe. Hort. Soc. Cat. 219. 



Rare Ripe Early Yellow. 76.217. 



Yellow Malacotan. 



Leaves crenated with round glajids. Flowers small, of a 

 dingy red. Fruit under a medium size, inclining to the 

 oval shape, apex full, with a,small tip. Skin greenish yellow, 

 with but little colouring of red, in some none. Hesh a fine 

 yellow, firm, and rather dry, separating freely from the 

 stone which is small for the size of the fruit. .Juice rich 

 and sweet, although not plentiful. Ripens the last week in 

 August. This, like the former kind, has many seminal va- 

 rieties, some good and some poor : the true Orange Peach 

 is very fine. I sent it to the Horticultural Society in 1823. 



71. HEATH. Hort. Soc. Cat. 189. 

 Heath Clingstone. Ib. 191. 



Late Heath. Code's View, 13. 



Late October, of some catalogues. 



Fruit large, inclining to an oval shape, and terminating in 

 a projecting point at the apex, and slightly cleft at the su- 

 ture. Skin white and downy, with very little, and in some 

 instances, no red, having a brownish cast on the sunny side. 



Flesh, white and juicy, adhering firmly to the stone ; ten- 

 der and melting. Juice very plentiful, sweet and luscious, 

 of a high fine flavour. 



Ripe in October. 



The Heath Peach requires a warm sheltered situation to 

 brin^ it to perfection north of New-York. It ought to be train- 

 ed against a south wall or board fence. It succeeds best far- 

 ther south, and in the state of Maryland arrives to the greatest 

 stato of perfection. This is one of the latest peaches we 

 have, and when perfectly ripe, equal to the very best ; arid 

 the best, for preserving it will keep till November. Coxe 

 says, " The original stone was brought from the Mediter- 

 ranean by the late Daniel Heath, and has ever since been 

 propagated from the stone in Maryland, where it grows in 

 high perfection and great abundance. " The juice is so 



