100 FKTJIT GARDEN. 



1848, the following list of peaches was adopted as of 

 the first quality : — 



Gross Mignunnc, 



George IV., or Early York, \f\ih senxUed leaves, 

 Large Early York, 

 Morris White, 

 Oldmixon Freestone, 

 Cooledge's Favorite, 

 Bergin's Yellow, 

 Crawford's Late, 

 And for particular localities, 

 lieath Cling, 



To this list the same body added, next year, the 



Belle de Vitry, 



Crawford's Early Malocaton, 



Early Tillotson, 



Admirable, 



Late Admirable, 



President, 



Red Rareripe, 



Lemon Cling, 



Madeleine de- Courson, 



Malta, 



Rareripe, 



Noblesse, 



Royal George, 



Tippecanoe, • 



Incomparable Admirable. 



Enemies of the Peach Tree. — The chief of these in 

 the United States are, first, the YellotvSy to which we 

 have referred, and ascribed to some uncongeniality of 

 soil to the tree, as well as to exhaustion, where there 

 is hot sufiicient fertility ; and, secondly, the peach-worm 

 which excavates the bark, so as often to girdle the tree 

 immediately below the crown of the root. Its presence 

 may always be known by a mass of gum, which exudes 



