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than on the other. Skin pale yellow or straw colour next 

 the wall ; but of a lively red, marked with light and dark 

 purple dashes on the sunny side. Flesh firm, pale yellow, 

 but of a hght red next the stone, to which it closely adheres. 

 Juice excellent. 



Ripe the beginning of September. 



Sect. IV. — Additional American Peaches. 



By the Editor. 



The following are selected as fine kinds, and believed to 

 be of American origin. Several of them cannot be excelled 

 by any European sorts, and are worthy of a place in every 

 collection. I sent most of the kinds to the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society in the years 1823 and 1825. The only 

 kind of them ( George the Fourth,) which our author describes, 

 shows that the climate of England is not sufficient to 

 produce them in perfection without artificial heat. The 

 George the Mh Peach ripens here the latter end of August 

 or beginning of September, and is what we call a Summer 

 Peach. The time of ripening in England appears to be 

 near a month later. What then would they do with 

 our later peaches, particularly the Heath, one of our very 

 latest, and when perfectly ripe, probably the best? We 

 want the most sheltered and warmest part of the garden 

 here to ripen this sort. Still I should recommend to the 

 English gardeners to give all the sorts a trial, in a good 

 Peach-house, where they can command a heat of seventy 

 or eighty degrees in the month of September. They will 

 find that their " Braddick^s Jlmerican,^^ which by our au- 

 thor's description does not promise much, may change its 

 character, and probably turn out to be the rich and high-fla- 

 voured Lemon Clingstone ; and all the other kinds would 

 find a place in a new edition, if perfectly ripened, with 

 high encomiums of character. However, it is important 

 that the true kinds are selected ; for it is a fact, that 

 all the kinds which I take to be original sorts will pro- 

 duce a number of varieties from seeds, of a similar type with 

 the original — some indifferent, and some very poor. Hence 

 we have hundreds of names, as sorts not worth culti- 

 vating ; although, to a careless observer, they may pass 

 as tolerable peaches. The facihty of raising peaches from 

 seed, in this country, has led many to neglect innocu- 

 lated trees, and trust to seedlings. Trees should always 

 be innoculated with scions from trees in a bearing state, 



