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and always of a green colour -, and tho' 

 'tis fo late as October before it ripens, yet 

 if the tree is properly ordered, the pulp is 

 tender and full of a pleafant juice. 



PEACHES proper for a fmall garden. 



There is not a neceffity of planting fo 

 many peaches as pears, for the former are 

 not in eating much more than three 

 months, and the latter may be fo ordered 

 as to be in ufe the whole year. 



I don't think it in the leaft neceffary to 

 defcribe all the kinds of peaches I am ac- 

 quainted with, for there are many not worth 

 any one's obfervation; therefore I fhall 

 only mention a few that are known to be 

 good, and fuch kinds as are in eating the 

 whole feafon : and thofe gentlemen that 

 are defirous of greater variety may be fur- 

 nifhed with names in other catalogues; 

 but if they confult more than one, 'tis pof- 

 fible they may find more names than differ 

 in forts of fruit ; for I have obferved le- 

 veral changes in the names of this kind of 

 fruit, within thefe thirty years laft pafl : 

 fometimes 'tis done by a perfon's liking the 



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