NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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HALE'S MEIiOOOTON PEACH. 



This peach has been raised by Col. Elisha 

 Hale, of Rock Bottom, (Stow,) from the seed, for 

 more tlian twenty years, and itiavariably produces 

 the same fruit. This fruit is remarkably rich and 

 sweet and uniformly good. It is also noted for its 

 long keeping in excellent condition. We received 

 a quantity of these peaches from Col. Hale one 

 season; we took no unusual pains to preserve them, 

 and used them daily for one week, and they con- 

 tinued good until the last. We regard this as a 

 very important advantage. Another great advan- 

 tage attending this variety, is the production of pre- 

 cisely the same fruit from seed, saving the trouble 

 and uncertainty of budding. We have raised hun- 

 dreds of these trees in the nursery, which weie 

 perfectly uniform in their appearance; as much so 

 as Baldwins, or any other variety that have been 

 budded. As this peach is not very large, nor very 

 beautiful, it may not be so saleable in market as 

 large and showy peaches. It may not sell for 

 what it is really worth, while peaches of more 

 show may sell beyond their intrinsic value. \^et 

 a moderate proportion of them may be profitable 

 for market, and for one's own use it is a very val- 

 uable variety. There are other peaches raised 

 from seed, and propagated also by budding, that 

 very nearly resemble this, and some are doubtless 

 identical with it. This peach resembles the Eng- 

 lish Melocoton, so called, raised in Maine some 

 forty years ago. The fruit is of medial size; ob-l 



long, flat at the base, slight suture on one side; 

 bright yellow; flesh yellow, of a very rich, sweet, 

 and excellent flavor, freestone. The tree is of 

 moderate growth and very hardy. It is a good 

 bearer, and bears early. Reniform glands; ripe from 

 the 5th to the 15th of September. 



WHITE BLACKBERRIES. 



A few weeks since, when passing through the cul- 

 tivated grounds of the Messrs. Needhams, in West 

 Danvers, which have yielded such an abundance of 

 delicious strawberries the present season, our at- 

 tention was attracted to some luxuriant bushes, 

 about four feet in height, which we were told 

 yielded a berry — called the tvfdte blackberry. To- 

 day we have been kindly favored by the gentle- 

 manly proprietors with a box of this fruit matured. 

 It is not exactly white, but more white than Mack, 

 resembling in appearance and taste the fruit of the 

 mulberry quite as much as the blackberry. The 

 luxuriant growth and abundant produce of this 

 shrub make it desirable to be cultivated by those 

 who are ambitious of supplying a variety of the 

 best fruits of the season. * 



Juhj 23, 1851. 



Grafting the Grape. — Mr. John Wasiiburn, 

 of Plymouth, informs us that he set in April some 

 scions of the Diana grape, which we sent him by 

 cleft grafting, and that they have grown six or 

 seven feet. lie also states that they will have a 



