38 THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 



than Gerarde. John Parkinson (1567-1650), another British herbahst, 

 who also cultivated a famous garden in London, devotes a chapter to 

 the peach and another to the nectarine. These being short, and every 

 word pertinent, we publish them in full: ' 



" The great white Peach is white on the outside as the meate is also, 

 and is a good well rellished fruit. 



" The small white Peach is all one with the greater, but differeth in 

 size. 



" The Carnation Peach is of three sorts, two are round, and the third 

 long; they are all of a whitish colour, shadowed over with red, and more 

 red on the side is next the sunne: the lesser round is the more common, 

 and the later ripe. 



" The grand Carnation Peach is like the former round Peach, but 

 greater, and is as late ripe, that is, in the beginning of September. 



" The red Peach is an exceeding well rellished fruit. 



" The russet Peach is one of the most ordinary Peaches in the King- 

 dome, being of a russet colour on the outside, and but of a reasonable rellish, 

 farre meaner then many other. 



" The Island Peach is a faire Peach, and of a very good rellish. 



" The Newington Peach is a very good Peach, and of an excellent 

 good rellish, being of a whitish greene colour on the outside, yet halfe 

 reddish, and is ripe about Bartholmew tide. 



" The yellow Peach is of a deepe yellow colour; there be hereof divers 

 sorts, some good and some bad. 



" The St. James Peach is the same with the Queenes Peach, here 

 belowe set downe, although some would make them differing. 



" The Melocotone Peach is a yellow faire Peach, but differing from 

 the former yellow both in forme and taste, in that this hath a small crooked 

 end or point for the most part, it is ripe before them, and better rellished 

 then any of them. 



" The Peach dii Troas is a long and great whitish yellow Peach, red 

 on the outside, early ripe, and is another kinde of Nutmeg Peach. 



" The Queenes Peach is a faire great yellowish browne Peach, shadowed 

 as it were over with deepe red, and is ripe at Bartholmew tide, of a very 

 pleasant good taste. 



" The Romane Peach is a very good Peach, and well rellished. 



" The Durasme or Spanish Peach is of a darke yellowish red colour 

 on the outside, and white within. 



" The blacke Peach is a great large Peach, of a very darke browne colour 

 on the outside, it is of a waterish taste, and late ripe. 



" The Alberza Peach is late ripe, and of a reasonable good taste. 



' Parkinson Par. Ter. 580, 582. 1629. 



