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BEST FRUITS FOR ORCHARD-HOUSES. 



Mr. Br^haut has given a very full list of the best varieties 

 of fruits which he has found adapted to orchard-house culture, 

 and which, no doubt, can be relied upon in the climate of 

 England, and some of them here. But we have native varie- 

 ties of some of tliem which are much better, and can be 

 recommended as superior for orchard-houses. 



Peaches. — Until very recently Englisli cultivators have 

 refused to recognize any very great merits in our American 

 peaches, and wc believe only two varieties have attained to 

 any very extensive cultivation, viz., the Royal Kensington 

 and George IV., both American, but renamed by English 

 pomologists. Even George IV., the Pomological Magazine, 

 where it is described, says that it is an American variety of 

 considerable importance, not so much for its good quality as 

 a hardy kind, as for being a forcing variety of great merit. 



But Mr, Rivers, who appears to have a due appreciation of 

 many of our American fruits, and introduced many of them 

 into his large collection, was struck with the " earliness and 

 goodness" of the Early York, and used it as the parent to 

 produce new seedlings, of which his Victoria is one of the 

 progeny. 



To whatever it may be attributed there is no doubt of the 

 superiority of our American peaches, for forcing or orchard- 

 house culture, being vigorous growers, and setting their fruit 

 with great certainty. And as to quality, though there is no 

 dispute about tlie excellence of the Grosse Mignonn^, Noblesse, 

 and some otiiers, it is hard to surpass in quality the Coolidge's 

 Favorite, or Early York, or in beauty, the Early and Late 

 Crawford. 



For tlie orchard-liouse tlie best peaches are the following : — 



Early York, (true,) with serrate leaves, not very large, 

 l)ut very early, beautiful and delicious, the first good peach 

 to ripen. 



