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OLD MIXON ; cling. Form, round ovate ; glands, 

 globose; flowers, small; flesh, pale white, with red 

 dots ; color, yellowish white ; size, 1 ; quality, 1 ; sea- 

 son, August. 



Eemarks. — American. Deserving, with H^'slop, a 

 place in every collection. This is one of the finest of 

 clingstone j^eacli^es ; ripens in the first part of Autumn. 



OLD MIXON ; free. Form, roundish oval ; glands, 

 globose; flowers, small; flesh, white, with red at stone; 

 color, yellowish white, and pale green with dull red min- 

 gled ; size, 1 ; quality, 1 ; season, September and October. 



Eemarks. — Merits a place in every collection. Stands 

 late frosts, in the Spring, better than any other, and ripens 

 for market when most other varieties are out. All this 

 makes it uncommonly profitable. A rather ugly, strag- 

 gling grower. In selecting trees from a nursery, choose 

 them more because of their strength and vigor of body, 

 than for the beauty, or symmetry of their form, or the 

 greatness of their hight. If a tree has good roots, chiefly, 

 it will take good care of itself, and Avill grow according 

 to its character. It will be sure to assume its true, natu- 

 ral shape. Mr. Sayers, a good nurseryman, informs us, 

 that he is often quite glad to retain the trees that most 

 persons reject. Though trees may have lost some of their 

 leading branches, or are otherwise apparently deformed, 

 when there is a strong constitution they will soon outgrow 

 such, in reality, slight defects. 



Orange Clingstone. Form, round ; leaves, no glands ; 

 flow^ers, small ; flesh, yellow; color, deej^, or dark red, red 

 cheek at times ; size, 2; quality, 2; season, August. 



Eemarks. — American. Firm, juicy, vinous. 



PEESIDENT. Form, roundish ovate; glands, globose; 



