THE 



Canadian Horticulturist. 



Vol. XIV. 



1801. 



No. 7. 



THE BRIGDEN PEACH. 



UR colored plate for this month introduces to our Canadian fruit 

 growers a peach that was highly commended at the last meeting of 

 the New York State Horticultural Society, but which, so far as we 

 know, has not yet been grown by any one in Ontario. 



This peach originated near Auburn, N.Y., with a Mr. Brigden, 

 after whom it is named. An attempt has been made to name it the 

 Garfield, after the late President, under the impression that a great 

 name would give it greater acceptance, but such an attempt seem to us quite 

 uncalled for. It would not only be an injustice to the originator, unless at his 

 own request, but it is also unavailing to produce the desired results. Let a good 

 fruit make its own name illustrious ; and, should the novelty prove valueless, its 

 failure will be the less conspicuous. Hundreds of young Americans have been 

 named George Washington by tl ""^nd and aspiring mothers, and not one of 

 them has proved, on this account, an^ more worthy of comparison with his great 

 original. And among the fruits, how many Presidents, Kings, Queens and Gov- 

 ernors have utterly failed to command the slightest homage, while the very 

 commonplace Baldwins, Wilsons, Concords and Crawfords have risen to the 

 very highest places among the world's fruit aristocracy, and their names and 

 praises are in everybody's mouth. 



The Brigden peach is said to have some points of especial merit ; it resem- 

 bles in appearance and in general characteristics that queen of peaches, the 

 Early Crawford ; in some points it quite surpasses it, for it is earlier, more pro- 

 ductive, more uniform in size, and superior in quality. 



