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THE PEACH OF EGYPT— BY MR. FOREST. 



Translated from the AnnalesD' Horticulture, Paris, July, 1850, by H. Meigs, Esq. 



In a garden attached to the Chateau of MandiHy, in the de- 

 partment of Yonne, belonging to Mon. le Compte de Bressieux, 

 a great friend of horticulture ; there is a peach almost utterly 

 unknown in France. I will say a few words about it. 



It has one quality which has hitherto been unknown in peach 

 trees, that of great capacity to bear hardships, and to resist all 

 the maladies common to our peach trees. This one can be easily 

 raised any where, almost, in open air, for it wants no shelter at 

 all. The specimen in question, has a kind of pyramidal form, 

 and is about fourteen years old. Mr. Bressieux, has raised a 

 number of them from the pits, and their fruit is identical with 

 that of the mother tree- They are covered with fruit, and with 

 deep green foliage. They present a perfectly robust appearance, 

 while our ordinary peach trees in the same garden are stripped 

 of both fruit and leaves — a sickly appearance too frequent in our 

 peach trees One of these Egyptians, at three years of age, ri- 

 pened eighty peaches. The original came from Egypt with our 

 armies in 1802. It was brought over by a military surgeon be- 

 longing to Dauphiny. The pit separates from the flesh readily. 

 The size about the same with that of the Teton-de Venus, (breast 

 of Venus,) and it ripens at about the same time. 



ACTION OF SULPHATE OF IRON (GREEN VITRIOL) ON 

 VEGETATION. 



Translated by H. Meigs. 



Mr. Eusebius Gris has made a fine discovery of the property 

 of this article in rendering plants healthy and of strong growth. 

 Numerous experiments give results as follows : 



On 4th of May, 1849, while a shower was about to fall, he 

 threw broadcast over a piece of wheat a small quantity of pow- 

 dered sulphate of iron ; the rain fell two hours afterwards and 



