^alls of the PJcafure-Gardeh, vvhere 

 the beautiful Appearance of it;s 

 Flowers early in the Spring will 

 be more acceptable in luch Places 

 than the chbicefl Fruits, which 

 mud be expos'd to Servants, arid 

 ©thers, Co that they feldom can be 

 preferv'd in large Families until 

 they are ripe. This Tree may be 

 propagated by budding it on the 

 Almond or ?lumb Siocks, in the 

 fame ma.incr as the other Sort of 

 feeichest and fliould be planted in a 

 good frefti Soil that is not over 

 moifl:. 



The other two Sorts arc of hum- 

 bler Growth, felddm rifing above 

 five Feet high : The^ may be bud- 

 ded upon Almond-Stocks y dr propa- 

 gated by Layers y they will alio 

 take upon Vlumb-Stocks ,• but they 

 are very apt to canker, after they 

 have flood four or five Years upon 

 thofb Stocks, efpecially that With 

 doiible Flowers, which is tenderer 

 than the other. 



Thefe Shrubs make a very agree- 

 able Variety amongft low Flower- 

 ing-trees, in fmall Wildernefs Quar- 

 ters. The lingle Sort flowers irt 

 the Beginning of April, and the 

 double is commonly a Fortnight 

 later. 



I fhall now proceed tS mention 

 the feveral Sorts of good Peaches 

 which have come to my Know- 

 ledge i and though, perhaps, a greas- 

 ier Number of Sorts m.;y be found 

 in fome Catalogues of Fruits, yet I 

 doubt whether many of them are 

 not the fame Kinds cali'd by diffe- 

 rent Names : For, in order to de- 

 termine the various Sorts, it is ne- 

 fefTary to oblerve the Shape and 

 Size of the Flowers, as well as the 

 different Parts of the Fruity for 

 this dees fdmetimes determine the 

 Rindi when the Fruit alone is not 

 iiifficktit: BeiMes, therfc is a vaft 





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Dil?erence in the Size and FldVour 

 of the fame 'Peach, when planted 

 on different Soils and Afpedtsj fo 

 that 'tis almoft impoffible for a Per* 

 fon, though very converfant with 

 thefe Fruits, to diftihguilli themj, 

 when brought from various Gar- 

 dens. 



. The j^refent Confufioii of this 

 Names of Fruits hath been manjr 

 times owittg to the briiigiiig over 

 Trees from 'France \ for the Perfoni^ 

 who are generally employed to 

 bring over thofc Trees tor Sales; 

 are intirely ignorant of theii vari- 

 ous Sorts, and do themfelves take 

 *em upon Truft from the Perfon:, 

 who make it their Bufinefs to pro- 

 pagate great Quantities to ftipply 

 the Markets of Franc'ci^ whither 

 they are brought in Waggo^^s, and 

 fold out in Parcels to thdfe Perfons 

 who bring them into England. Ic 

 alio happens many times, that il" 

 they are received by right Namesi, 

 thefe, in Length of Time, are 

 loft, or the Trees coriie into the 

 Poflelfion of other Perfons, who 

 not knov/ing the true Name of 

 the Fruit, do dfteii give them new 

 Names, whereby there is fuch a 

 Gbhfulion in the Names of Fruity 

 as is impolTible to redtify : And 

 hence fbmle Perfons have liippos'd 

 a much greater Variety of Peaches 

 than there is in Reality ; thd' as the 

 greatcft Part of thefe have been ob- 

 taiii'd from Seeds, fb their Varie- 

 ties ma^ be multiply'd annually until 

 there be no End of the Sorts. How- 

 ever, I fhail content my fclf with 

 enumerating the principal Sorts 

 now known in Englnnd, which arc 

 fufficient for any Gcntlemarl to 

 make a CoUedtion td continue 

 through the whole Seafon of Fruit. 



I. The White Nutjneg (cali'd hj 

 the Irenchy Petite-Avaht-Pe/che) is 

 the firfl ripe Peach t Its j uice is mus- 



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