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CRAWFORD'S EARLY, M., F. The most splendid of all early 

 yellow-fleshed peaches. Very popular for the garden or the orchard. 

 Tree is vigorous, fruitful, and hardy ; leaves with globose glands ; 

 flowers small. Fruit very large, oblong, swollen, point at top 

 prominent, suture shallow, skin yellow, with red cheek. Flesh 

 yellow, rich, and excellent. 



ROYAL GEORGE, M., F. Large globular, broad, and depressed ; 

 suture deep and broad, extending around two-thirds of the fruit. 

 Skin pale or white, sprinkled with red dots and deep red cheek. 

 Flesh tender, white, but very red at pit, juicy, rich, high flavour; 

 .subject to curl leaf. 



MOUNTAIN ROSE, M., F. A well-coloured, hardy, and valuable 

 medium peach. The product of a cross between Chinese Cling and 

 and Early Crawford, ripening just after the latter. 



SHANGHAI, M., C. Large yellow peach ; skin pale yellowish 

 green on the shaded side, and light red next the sun. Flesh pale 

 yellow, very deep red at the stone, to which some of the strings 

 adhere; melting, juicy, and richly flavoured. Tree a very good 

 bearer. Ripens beginning of February. 



ELBERTA M., F. (Georgia). Fruit very large; round oval, 

 with deep suture ; golden yellow, with enough blush to make it 

 showy. Flesh yellow, red at the pit ; excellent flavour. It bears 

 well and ships well ; large foliage but subject to curl leaf. Ripens 

 just ahead of Muir, towards the middle of February. 



MUIR (California), M., F. Fruit large to very large; perfect 

 freestone ; flesh clear yellow, very dense, rich and sweet ; pit small ; 

 tree a good bearer and strong grower, if on rich soil, to which it is 

 best adapted. Fruit a good shipper and canner, and peculiarly 

 adapted to drying, because of exceptional sweetness and density of 

 flesh. Yield lib. dry from less than 51bs. fresh. Ripens end of 

 February. 



LOVELL, M., F. Is now running a strong favourite to Elberta 

 in California. Pronounced to be one of the best peaches as a dryer, 

 canner, and shipper. Tree a strong grower, bears heavily and 

 carries the fruit well ; for drying it is close to the Muir in weight of 

 dried fruit per pound of fresh, and makes finer dried fruit. Large 

 .size, round, yellow. Flesh fine, texture firm, solid, clear yellow to 

 the pit. Said to curl in some places. 



LADY PALMERSTON, L., F. A fine late English peach ; generally 

 flowers small ; leaves with kidney-shaped glands. Large, skin 

 greenish-yellow, with a crimson cheek ; flesh pale green, rich, and 

 melting. 



COMET, L., C. A very large yellow flesh peach; fine for 

 canning. A seedling from Salway, which it resembles, but is 

 rather smaller, and fourteen days earlier (middle of April). 



SALWAY (English), L., F. Fruit large, roundish, one side 

 enlarged, suture distinct ; creamy yellow, with a marbled rich, 



