30 PEACHES. 



shelves in the fruit-room, it may be preserved till November, 

 and the juice acquires an additional richness after being thus 

 preserved for some days, but if kept too long in that state, it 

 shrivels and loses a portion of its juice and fine flavour. It is 

 in great repute for preserves in sugar and brandy, and there 

 can scarcely exist another peach superior to it for these pur- 

 poses. 



The following history of its origin from the pen of William 

 Prince, the present senior proprietor of the Flushing Nur- 

 series, differs from that of Mr. Coxe : it is possible that two 

 seedling varieties originating in different places may have pro- 

 duced fruit so similar as to blend them with each other. 



" The original tree was discovered growing wild on the farm 

 of the late Judge Willet, of Flushing, and it was called Heath 

 clingstone, from the circumstance of its being found in a bar- 

 ren field or heath, as the old English settlers sometimes termed 

 such lands as were left uncultivated. My father cultivated it 

 many years before the revolution. It has the peculiar pro- 

 perty of perpetuating itself from seed with but a partial va- 

 riation in most cases, from the original ; the fruit of some of 

 the seedling trees being rather more firm, and that of others 

 varying a little in the period of maturity, but the whole hav- 

 ing a general affinity." 



KENRICK'S HEATH. PR. CAT. 



This freestone variety I received from the Messrs. Kenrick, 

 who obtained it from the late Gen. Heath, of Roxbury, near Bos- 

 ton. The flowers are of medium size ; the fruit is oblong, with a 

 deep cavity at the insertion, and a slight mamelon at the 

 extremity ; it has also a groove, or suture, extending almost 

 from the base to the summit, which is sometimes very deep, but 

 in general only slightly depressed ; the skin is a greenish 

 yellow, touched with reddish purple on the sunny side, and 

 sometimes of a purplish hue around the insertion ; the flesh is 

 greenish, extremely, juicy, of a pleasant subacid, but not high 

 flavour, and is occasionally somewhat stringy ; the stone se- 

 parates from the flesh and is apt to split. This fruit is one of 



