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with a broad shallow suture on one side, and slight traces of 

 one on the other. Skin, on the shaded side, pale dull green- 

 ish yellow ; next the sun, broadly marked with broken 

 blotches of dull purplish red. Flesli greenish yellow, with a 

 slight stain of [)urple next the stone, from which it separates. 

 ■Juice plentiful, very rich, with an extremely agreeable vi- 

 nous flavour. Stone middle sized, oval, pointed, rather 

 rugged. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 

 A very excellent and hardy peach, said to ripen its fruit 

 well on an open standard in Normandy. It bears carriage 

 remarkably well, and will, keep longer when gathered than 

 any other peach, except the clingstones. 



11.* New Noblesse. JVarserij Catalogues. 

 Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large, 

 pale rose. Fruit middle sized, somewhat oval, with an ob- 

 scure sulure, quite even at the apex, but terminating with a 

 small acute nipple. Skin pale greenish yellow on the sha- 

 ded side ; but next the sun of a pale red, and marbled with 

 different shades of deeper colour. F/es/i greenish yellow 

 quite to the stone, from which it separates. Juice plentiful, 

 rich, and of a most exquisite flavour. 

 Ripe the beginning of September. 



This Peach has been sold for some time by Mr. Ronalds 

 of Brentford, who says it was raised by a friend of his from 

 seed ; but when and where I have not been informed. 



12. Noblesse. Langley,p. 101. t. 28. fig. 3. G. Lindl. 

 in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 539. Pom. Mag. t. 95. and 

 of all English Writers beginning with Switzer, in 1724. 

 Mellish's Favourite. Of the JVurseries. 

 Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large, 

 pale blush. Fruit large, for the most part roundish oblong, 

 a little narrowed at the apex, and terminated by an acute 

 nipple. Skin slightly downy, pale yellowish green next 

 the wall; but of a marbled dull red, marked with broken 

 streaks and blotches of a darker colour on the sunny side. 

 Flesh melting, pale yellowish white to the stone, from which 

 it separates. Juice plentiful, rich, and highly flavoured. 

 Stone large, obovate, pointed. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 

 This is one of our very best hardy peaches, and perhaps 

 one of the most common ; but it is often confounded ^ith an- 

 other, well known, the Vanguard, which is somewhat simi- 

 lar in appearance and in its general characters. It is, how- 



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