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resemble each other that there is little choice among them. I am 

 myself inclined to the High's Early Canada, as being a native 

 Canadian, and not inferior to the others. This variety then we would 

 commend as at least second among the new varieties, if indeed it 

 should not be placed before the Waterloo. Its beautiful color, good 

 size and fair qualities combine to make it very saleable and very 

 satisfactory. 



The EiVERs' Seedlings, viz, the Early Beatrice, Early Eivers, 

 Early Louise and Early Silver were originated some years ago by 

 Lord Eivers, a nobleman, in England, who ships large quantities of 

 fruit to the London market. The Beatrice is a week earlier than the 

 Hale's Early, but is not profitable in large quantities, because it is too 

 ejnall and too perishable. Last season I saw heaps of them wasting 

 in Toronto, notwithstanding their earliness. The Early Eivers and 

 the Early Louise have not yet been fairly tested in this locality, but 

 the latter being of a pale straw, is, I think, too delicate and too easily 

 inarked to be profitable for shipping. I do not know that any one 

 here has tried the Early Silver. It is two or three weeks later than 

 the others. It is of a silvery color, and the flesh is white to the stone. 



The Sal WAY is also a stranger to most growers here. It is a very 

 large yellow, free-stone peach, imported from England about fourteen 

 years ago. It presents a beautiful appearance, and the quality is good, 

 but its chief merit is its extreme lateness, for it is said to ripen just 

 after the Smock. I do not advise planting many very late peaches 

 for market. By the month of October people are about satisfied with 

 peach eating; all canning, drying and preserving is over, and the 

 market cpuld Easily be glutted, 



Now to recapitulate, Were I asked to give the names of five old 

 varieties of peaches most profitable for growers to plant in this section, 

 naming in order of merit, from this standpoint I would reply, Early 

 Crawford, Old Mixon, Early Purple, Hale's Early and Smock, If 

 more varieties were wanted, I would add Morris' White, Lemon Cling 

 ^nd Stump.-the-World. 



Or if I were asked to give a list of the most profitable varieties of 

 peaches for this section, new or old, naming them in the order of 

 ripening, I would give the following list : — Waterloo, High's Early 

 Canada, Hale's Early, Early Purple, Early Crawford, Old Mixon Free- 

 stone, Morris White, Lemon Cling, Smock, and Salway, 



