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speaks so much of ; but I cannot say much for it, as it is 

 every one's duty to speak the truth ; and then the mid-season 

 peaches. Noblesse is a well-known kind to the visitors of 

 Covent Garden. Choose the Sulhampstead variety of this, 

 it being by far the best, and the hardiest for the open wall, 

 and also forces well. Then the Reine des Vergers, a very 

 good peach (mine ripened early in August this year) ; then 

 Royal George and Red Magdalen — two old friends found in 

 every old garden. 



After these come the Malta, that excellent peach. Noisette. 

 no mean judge calls it " his favorite ; " and mine this year, 

 even the smallest, were nine inches in circumference. Be- 

 sides, the Malta peach will hang on the tree without falling, 

 an excellent quality in any fruit. It will also be the best to 

 send to your friends at a distance, because it bears carriage 

 the best of any. 



Then you may have the Chancellor peach ; Rivers and 

 Leroy of Angers call it " excellent," though MacEwen calls 

 it " ugly." It is a long, almond-shaped peach — rather bitter, 

 but otherwise curious, and good. Mine this year were very 

 fine. Then Barrington ; then Bourdine, all September 

 peaches, but in the orchard-house rather earlier ; then Wal- 

 burton Admirable, that noble kind, and Desse Tardive — a 

 most beautiful, yellow-colored, large variety. . I have Belle- 

 garde, (Noire de Montreuil,) which the French rave about. 

 It is excellent, but not first-rate under glass, nor Belle Bauce. 



Belle de Vitry ripened in September. It is a staple of the 

 Montreuil gardens for the Paris market with Bellegarde, — 

 and I prefer it, — but the tree is very vigorous, and may ex- 

 ceed your powers to keep it under. Mr. Rivers does not 

 notice it in his catalogue, and you can do without it. Then 

 there are the Pavie or clingstone peaches ; of which I can 

 only say, that they who make trial of them will discover 

 something worth their labor. My own this year are very 

 fine ; but I cannot retard them as I hoped. Pavie de Ton- 

 neux, " fruit magnifiqae," (as Leroy says,) ripens a montli 

 earlier than was desirable ; but is a noble peach. 



