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fruit, and not knowing its name, calls 

 it according to his own fancy, and after 

 that recommends the kind, and from 

 thence others are propagated and called by 

 this new name : again, there are fome that 

 are actually known by two or three names> 

 occafioned by thofe who have wrote ca- 

 talogues of this kind of fruit, one author 

 thinking it not material to mention all the. 

 names belonging to one fort, calls it only 

 by one, and then another defcribes the 

 fame fruit by a different name; which 

 caufes fome readers to imagine, that there 

 are more feperate kinds than there really 

 are. 



There are many kinds of early peaches, 

 which are called by the name of Nutmes, 

 Troy, Capuchine, &c. but I think they 

 are only proper for thofe gentlemen that 

 have a great number of walls ; for at the 

 time they are ripe, there are other kinds of 

 fruit in perfeclicn^ which much exceed them 

 in goodnefs. 



The white Magdalene is the firft early 

 peach that I recommend. It is a mid- 

 dle fized fruit, of a round make, with 

 a deep furrow on one fide , is of a very 



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