642 THE PEACH. 



tender, melting, juicy, and of a delicious vinous flavour; quality 

 " best." September first. (G. Pom. S. Rep.) 



Tippecanoe. 

 Hero of Tippecanoe. 



A new, very large, and handsome Clingstone, originated by 

 Mr. George Thomas, of riiiladelphia, and first exhibited before 

 the Horticultural Society there in 1840. Its lateness and beauty 

 render it a valuable kind. 



Leaves with reniform glands, the shoots dark purplish -red. 

 Fruit very large, nearly round, a little compressed on the sides. 

 Skin yellow, with a fine red cheek. Flesh yellow, juicy, with 

 a good vinous flavour. It ripens from the 20th to the last of 

 September. Flowers small. 



Washington Clingstone. 



An American variety, remarkably juicy and sweet. Although 

 Thompson finds it third rate in England, it is here scarcely sur- 

 passed. To use the expressive words of one of our friends in 

 Maryland, a good judge of fruit, "there is nothing better than 

 this peach out of Paradise." It is neither handsome nor pre- 

 possessing externally. 



Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit of medium size, round- 

 ish. Skin yellowish-green, marked with grey specks, and with 

 a slight tinge of red on the sunny side. Flesh very juicy, ten- 

 der, and melting, with a very sweet and luscious flavour. Last 

 of September. Flowers small. 



Curious or Ornamental Varieties, 



Double Blossomed. Thomp. 



Double Flowering Peach. Pecher a Fleurs Doubles. Bon. Jard. 

 Rose Flowering. Pecher a Fleurs Semi-Doubles. 0. Duh. 



The Double Blossomed peach is, when in full bloom, one of 

 the gayest and most beautiful of fruit trees, and blooming with 

 its lovely companion, the Double Flowering Cherry, finds a 

 place in all our pleasure-grounds and ornamental plantations. 

 Its flowers are three times the size of those of the common 

 peach, of a lively rose colour, nearly full double, and so thickly 

 disposed on the branches as to be very striking and showy. 

 They are produced at the usual season, or a few days later. 



This sort is rendered more dwarf for shrubberies, by budding 

 it upon the Mirabelle, or the Cherry Plum stock. 



The leaves have reniform glands. The fi-uit, which is spar- 

 ingly produced, is roundish-oval, pale greenish-yellow, faintly 

 tinged with red, freestone, and of indiff"erent flavour. 



