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Rostiezer, early, native fruit. 

 Cushing; September, native fruit. 

 Buffum, September, native fruit. 

 Flemish Beaut//, September, foreign fruit. 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, September, foreign fruit. 

 Seckel, September, native fruit. 

 Leivis, early winter, native fruit. 

 Winter Nelis, winter, native fruit. 

 Vicar of Winkfield, winter, foreign fruit. 

 Black Pear of Worcester, — Catillac, — Uvedale's St. Germain 

 or Pound. These three are foreign fruits, for winter cooking. 



Peaches. — In the cultivation of this fruit it is not well to 

 run to many varieties, it being better policy to cultivate a few 

 of the hardiest and best sorts. The yellow-flesh peaches, al- 

 though not the highest flavored, are those which we should 

 recommend for market. Among these, the most desirable are 

 the Red-Cheek Melacoton and its seedlings ; Crawford's Early 

 and Crawford's Late Yellow. The Red-Cheek Melacoton we 

 have found to be most profitable, inasmuch as it ripens after 

 the general supply of peaches is gone, and wiU then command 

 a good price. We have had this fruit, with its brilliant red 

 cheek, hanging upon the trees as late as the second or third 

 week in October; it is also a great bearer annually. Mr. 

 Downing says of it, " Hundreds of thousands of bushels are 

 raised and sent to market, in this country, every year." It is 

 also an American seedling, and if true, as said by Mr. Cole, 

 that natives are more hardy than foreign peach trees, this will 

 be an additional recommendation. Of Crawford's Early and 

 Crawford's Late, we would say that no two sorts, following 

 each other in their time of ripening, are more desirable for 

 cultivation, in our catalogue of peaches. 



Quinces. — Orange Quince. This is a profitable fruit for 

 cultivation, particularly the Early Orange, or Apple Quince. 

 Many quince trees which we see around us, are seedlings, with 

 fruit of a green color, oblong form, and thick, leathery skin, and 

 are hardly fit for cultivation. We should avoid raising bushes 

 of this kind, either from seeds or cuttings. We would re- 

 commend planting from seeds or cuttings of the true variety, 

 as seeds from this sort will most generally produce their kind ; 



