TII13 PEACH. 97 



Orahardist^ p. 223. — This is a fine large peach of 

 American origin ; bears forcing well, and is a semi- 

 clingstone. It requires a flued wall in England. 



Ajaaong other excellent peaches may be mentioned : 

 Freestones, 'Chancellor, Knight's Early, Downton Early, 

 Malta, or Belle de Paris, Royal Charlotte, and. Wil- 

 liam's Early Purple ; Clingstones, Catharine, Heath, 

 and Old Newington. 



The following account of the modes of cultivating 

 the peach in England, whilst it shows the impediments 

 opposed by nature to the development of this fruit in 

 that climate, may prove useful to those who reside in 

 the more northern United States and British Colonies 

 where the climate is unfavourable to the perfection of 

 this delicious fruit in the open air.* In all the Southern 

 and Middle States the peach-tree flourishes in the open 

 air, and planted in orchards, attains some fifteen or 

 twenty feet in height. The position where the peach 

 is found perhaps in the greatest perfection is about the 

 latitude of Baltimore and Washington. In the State of 

 Delaware, south of Philadelphia, thousands of acres 

 are covered with peach-trees affording the greatest 

 abundance of fruit in the highest perfection. Baskets, 

 holding about three pecks, are commonly sold at 

 tAventy-five to fifty cents. The .varieties of this fruit 

 known in the United States are ^very numerous, and 

 every year increasing. 



Propagation. — The facility with which this is effected 

 in the United States may be judged of by the fact, 



* The management required for obtaining tlie peach at ex- 

 traordinary seasons will be found laid down in the description 

 of operations connected with forcing. 



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