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The Early RiVf:RS was most satisfactory. Notwithstanding the 

 prodigious quantity of fruit with which it was laden down to the 

 ground, it reached a fine size, and a great many specimens attained a 

 reddish cheek, so that with careful picking and shipping it brought the 

 highest price. 



The Hale's Early has never done better in this section. It has 

 certainly redeemed its character. No peach has ripened better, and 

 110 peach displayed such beautiful colors or reached a fairer size, so 

 that altogether it has proved itself this season a most satisfactory and 

 profitable peach. 



The Early Purple has not done itself justice. It had no color, 

 and was the smallest of the small, so that we were glad to see the 

 last of it. 



The market has been glutted with Early Crawfords, and the 

 price has been weighed down beyond all precedent. Though it fully 

 deserves to be called " the peach of the season/' yet it is easy to have 

 too much of a good thing, at least in fruit culture, and this peach 

 poured into the markets faster than it could be distributed. No sooner 

 were they over than prices took an upward tendency. 



The grower now-a-days is fortunate who has a good many Old 

 MixoN and Late Cr.\wfords. The latter is accounted a very poor 

 bearer, but this season it has not deserved such opprobrium, for it has 

 been laden to the ground. The Old Mixon is a peach too much neg- 

 lected. It will hang until the Early Crawfords are done, and then 

 come in most opportunely. Those who know it esteem its quality 

 as superior to the Early Crawford. It is a noble old peach, and has 

 not yet found its peer in the peach family. 



The Lemon Cling is this year more profitable than the Early 

 Crawford, though so much inferior. The latter have been sold in some 

 orchards here as low as twenty-five cents a basket, while the former 

 is worth double that price, because it has scarce any competition in 

 the market. 



The S.MOCK completes our list. The trees are as full as it is possible 

 for trees to be, and last year they were the same. The fruit has a 

 beautiful golden red color, and though not yet harvested, (Sept. 18,) 

 it promises as well as any of its predecessors. 



