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fruit is esteemed as the very best and most productive of 

 all the earliest peaches. It will ripen here at the 25th of 

 August. 



8. *EARLY CRAWFORD. 



Large, and very beautiful ; oblong ; deep red next the 

 sun, pale yellow in the shade ; flesh yellow, juice sweet r 

 relieved by an acid ; very rich and excellent. The tree is 

 a great bearer. Fruit new and splendid, of merit unsur- 

 passed. It was originated by William Crawford, Esq., of 

 Middletown, New Jersey. It is there esteemed as the very 

 best of all early peaches, the most productive and profita- 

 ble. It will here ripen the last of August. The tree 

 bears sufficiently foil to allow the fruit to grow large. 



9. *COOLEDGE'S FAVORITE. 



COOLEEKJE'S EARLY RED RARERIPE. 



The tree is vigorous and most extraordinary productive. 

 A large, very handsome, globular fruit ; pale in the shade, 

 but of a fine red or crimson next the sun ; very melting, 

 juicy, sweet, and of a vinous flavor. This fruit ripens 

 very early, soon after the Early Anne, and is esteemed a 

 first-rate fruit by the cultivators for the markets of Boston. 

 It was originated by the late Mr. Joshua Cooledge, of Wa- 

 tertown, Massachusetts. 



10. *EARLY RED RARERIPE. 



The fruit is large ; of a deep red color, which covers 

 most of its surface ; of a globular form ; the flesh stained 

 to the stone with red ; melting, juicy, rich, slightly acid, 

 vinous, and excellent. A very valuable early fruit, and 

 deserves to be recommended. 



11. *EARLY ROYAL GEORGE. 



A v.ery large, handsome, and superior fruit, of a globular 

 form ; of a yellow color in the shade, but of a fine deep red 

 next the sun ; the flesh melting, juicy, saccharine, vinous, 

 and most excellent. It ripens in August, and is one of the 

 very best of all peaches, and a most productive kind. 



12. *EARLY ROBINSON CRUSOE. 



Large, round, and very handsome ; pale in the shade ; 

 pale red next the sun ; very juicy, sweet, and delicious. A 

 very first-rate fruit, and add to this, the tree bears very ex- 

 traordinary crops. It ripens the 10th of September. This 

 superior new fruit, which I received of Colonel Carr, was 

 raised by Dr. Coxe, of Philadelphia, from a stone brought 



