THE PEACH. 637 



slips easily from the flesh, yellowish white in the shade, marked with 

 red in the sun. Flesh white, with yellowish veins, and red next the 

 stone. Juicy, melting, sweet, vinous. Ripe middle August. Freestone. 



WHITE NUTMEG. 

 Early White Nutmeg. 



The White Nutmeg is the smallest of Peaches, the flavor is inferior, 

 and it is only esteemed by curious amateurs as ripening a few days 

 earlier than any other variety. Leaves serrated, without glands. Flow- 

 ers large. 



Fruit very small, rather oval, with a deep suture extending a little 

 more than half round. Skin white, or rarely with pale blush. 

 Flesh white to the stone, with a sweet and slightly musky, pleasant 

 flavor. Ripens about the 10th or 15th of July. Freestone. 



WHITE PACE. 



A Southern Peach, a variety of the Indian or Pace Peach, but 

 with a comparatively white skin. Flesh yellowish, juicy, sweet. 

 August. Freestone. 



VIOLET HATIVE. 

 English Galand. Hardy Galand. 



A variety of Bellegarde. Glands globose. Flowers small. 

 Fruit similar to Bellegarde, but smaller and paler in color. 



YELLOW ALBERGE. 



Alberge Jaune. Gold-Fleshed. Red Alberge. 



Peche Jaune. Yellow Rareripe. Golden Mignonne. 



Purple Alberge. 



The Yellow Alberge is an old French variety, and one of the earliest 

 of the yellow-fleshed Peaches. It is, no doubt, the original sort from 

 which our Melocotons and Yellow Rareripes have sprung in this coun- 

 try. It has only a second-rate flavor, except in rich, warm soils, and 

 is not comparable to the Yellow Rareripe in size or quality. Leaves 

 with globose glands. Flowers small. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish, with a well-marked furrow running 

 half round. Skin yellow, with a deep purplish-red cheek. Flesh 

 yellow, but deep red at the stone, soft, juicy, sweet, with a pleasant 

 vinous flavor. Middle of August. Freestone. 



The ROSANNA, Alberge Jaune lardif of many French gardens, and 

 Yellow Alberge of some gardens here, differs from the above only in 

 having reniform glands and ripening ten or twelve days later. Flavor 

 second-rate. 



Barnard's Early and Yellow Honest John are probably identical, 

 or, if seedlings, so near like the parent, Yellow Alberge, as to be un- 

 worthy particular attention. 



