252 PEACHES. 



15. SULHAMSTEAD. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 513. 

 Leaves deeply serrated, without glands. Flowers 



large. Fruit large, somewhat globular, depressed at 

 the apex, slightly cleft, with a corresponding depression 

 on the opposite side. Skin covered with a fine short 

 down, of a clear pale yellow next the wall ; but of a 

 pale red, and marbled with a darker colour on the 

 sunny side. Flesh melting, pale yellow quite to the 

 stone, from which it separates. Juice abundant, sweet, 

 with a rich vinous flavour. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This fine Peach, somewhat resembling, externally, a 

 Newington, was raised in the garden of Mrs. Thoytes, of 

 Sulhamstead House, near Reading, in Berkshire, and 

 was first exhibited at the Horticultural Society in 1819- 



16. VANGUARD. G. LindL Plan of an Orchard, 

 1796. ib. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 540. 



Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers 

 large. Fruit large, nearly globular, and quite flat or 

 depressed at the apex. Skin yellowish white next the 

 wall, but marbled and streaked with a few dashes of 

 much deeper colour on the sunny side. Flesh melting, 

 and white to the stone, .from which it separates. Juice 

 rich and sugary. Stone somewhat ovate, rugged, and 

 sharp pointed. 



Ripe the beginning of September. 



It would be difficult, perhaps, to ascertain with whom 

 the Vanguard Peach originated, or when it began to be 

 first cultivated. I found it in Mr. Mackie's Nursery, at 

 Norwich in 1789, and I inserted it in a list of Peaches, 

 in my Plan of an Orchard, published in 1796, whence 

 it found its way into Mr. Forsyth's Treatise on Fruit 

 Trees, in 1802 ; but neither in that work, nor yet in 

 any other, has any description of it, I believe, been 

 hitherto published. Mr. Hooker, in his Pomona 

 Londinensis, has given a tolerably good figure of it, 

 under the name of Noblesse, which he had intended to 



