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The PEACH TREE. 



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^HE Peach tree, (Per/tea) a fpecies 

 of the Amygdalus, or Almond, 

 produces the mod valuable of our (lone 

 fruits, furpaffing mod others in their 

 vaft variety, beauty, richnefs of flavour, 

 and long duration in perfection, they 

 continuing in eating from July till No- 

 vember, in the different varieties, wherey 

 the trees demand ourprincipalcare,as the 

 choiceft of wall trees, planted againft the 

 befl .ioutherly expofures ; and belongs 

 to the clafs and order lcofandria monogy* 

 nia y as the Almond. 



There is but one fpecies of the Peach 

 tree, and which being confidered by the 



Botanift* 



