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without glands; flowers, large; flesh, greenish Avhite ; 

 color, pale greenish white ; two shades of red to sun ; size, 

 1 to 2 ; quality, 1 ; season, August ; freestone. 



Eemarks. — English ; of the highest character. "Wherever 

 it has been tried it has given great satisfaction. Most de- 

 licious and valuable. Tree, hardy and productive. No 

 cultivator should be without it. — In the London Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden, at Chiswick, even as early as 1826, 

 we find that they have at least fifty varieties of the native 

 peaches of America — the selection from tlie extensive na- 

 tive orchards of this fruit, raised iu tiie Middle and West- 

 ern States, for distillation and other purposes. All these, 

 many of which are so fine in our climate, and which are 

 so grateful to travelers, as well as ourselves, with the ex- 

 ception of only iivo^ are rejected as worthless, not being 

 adapted to their latitude ; and, owing to the want of sun 

 and length of season, even on walls and the w^armest as- 

 pects and situations to which they are obliged to confine 

 them. It is about the same with our other native fruits, 

 so superior in our own climate — on trial they are also 

 obliged to reject them — the splendid and delicious apples 

 of America — the selections of two centuries. On the other 

 hand, there are not, comparatively, a great number of 

 foreign fruits, particularly those of ]!^orthern latitudes, 

 which, when brought down to our own, do not lose a great 

 portion of that high reputation which they may have there 

 been entitled to, compared with our native seedlings. 

 There are, however, some foreign fruits which enjoy a lat- 

 itude more like our own, as the Mela Carle, from Italy, 

 one of the greatest' apples in the world — at least it is so 

 considered — which do very well with us, although this 

 apple, in the climate of England, is a very ordinary fruit, 

 and although the temperature of our climate is very con- 

 siderably difl'erent from those parts of Europe, of Asia, 

 and of Africa, in latitudes which are very similar to them. 



