PEACHES. CLASS I. 193 



53. *SAINT GEORGE, OR SMOCK FREE. 



Very large, of quality first-rate; some having measured 

 twelve inches round ; form oblong ; dark red next the sun, 

 pale yellow in the shade ; juice abundant, fine-flavored, a 

 little acid. One of the very best of all very late peaches; 

 so esteemed where known. New, and lately originated by 

 Mr. Smock, at Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J., whence 

 it was received here in 1840. It ripens at that place from 

 the last of September to the middle of October, and will 

 ripen, usually, from the 10th to the 20th of October here. 



54. CHINA FLAT PEACH. Hort. Trans. Braddick. 



JAVA PEACH. 



A most singular and curious peach, which is said to be 

 much cultivated and esteemed in China. The diameter 

 from the eye to the stalk is less than three quarters of 

 an inch, and consists wholly of the stone and a skin which 

 covers it. The thickness of its sides is one inch and an 

 eighth, while its transverse diameter is two inches and a 

 half. The skin is pale yellow, mottled with red next the 

 sun, and covered with tine down ; the flesh pale yellow, a 

 beautiful radiated circle of fine red surrounding the stone, 

 which is flatly compressed, small, rough, and irregular. 

 The fruit is melting and good, being sweet and juicy, with 

 a little Noyeau flavor and bitter aroma. In 1840, this 

 curious variety was here received by a renewed importa- 

 tion from Europe, and a first-rate source. [Leaves R. 

 Flowers L.] 



55. ISPAHAN. N. Duh. PI. xxiv. 

 PECKER D'!SPAHAN. Ib. 



This singular tree was discovered in 1799, by Brugmere 

 and Olivier, at Ispahan, the capital of Persia, in the vast 

 Royal Gardens, where were concentrated most of the fruits 

 of Asia. The branches are very slender and numerous, 

 the leaves very narrow, finely serrated, of a delicate green 

 color, and unlike those of any other variety known. The 

 fruit is nearly spherical: the skin of a whitish green, 

 slightly downy ; flesh greenish white, melting, and sepa- 

 rates from the stone ; juice abundant and delicious. 



56. YELLOW ADMIRABLE, OR APRICOT PEACH 



Bon Jard. 1828, p. 293. 



ABRICOTEE, ADMIRABLE JAUNE, PECHE D'ORANGE. 

 GROSSE JAUNE, PECHE DE BURAI, SANDALIE HERMAPHRODITE. 



The leaves have reniform glands ; flowers large ; the 



