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peach which ripens in July, to the large 

 October peach, which is more agreeable to 

 the sight than the palate. This fruit has been 

 almost equally multiplied in its varieties with 

 the apple, by sowing the stones, and lately 

 by the ingenious method of impregnating 

 the blossoms. T. H. Knight, Esq. President 

 of the Horticultural Society, has procured a 

 new peach by this operation : he impregnated 

 the pistillum of the blossom on an almond- 

 tree, with the pollen of the peach-flower; and 

 this almond, when planted, produced a peach- 

 tree instead of one of its own kind, and has 

 since ripened peaches. 



The peach varies so much in quality, that 

 many sorts are not worth the growing ; it 

 is therefore to be hoped that we shall soon 

 have them exploded, and the better varieties 

 cultivated in situations most congenial to 

 their tender nature. At Montreuil, a village 

 near Paris, the whole population is exclusively 

 employed in the cultivation of peaches, which 

 has maintained the inhabitants for several 

 ages ; and the consequence is, that they raise 

 better peaches than any other part of France 

 affords. 



I have often observed, that the finest 

 flavoured peaches have been gathered from 

 trees of the greatest age ; and I have met with 

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