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however, like all its relatives, is subject to the attacks of borers, 
and it requires eternal vigilance to keep it free from these pests. 
They usually attack the base of the plant, and inspection just 
above and below the soil is necessary to detect this enemy. ‘Their 
presence is usually indicated by the borings, and the best remedy 
is to cut out the offenders at once and exterminate them; if not 
removed they will soon girdle the plant, and its eventual death is 
certain. There are several double-flowered forms of the ordinary 
peach in cultivation, some with white and others with pink, rose 
or red flowers. 
David’s peach is a small tree of slender habit, rarely over ten or 
twelve feet tall, with blush or light pink, rarely white flowers, 
commonly an inch or less long; the blades are lanceolate, elliptic, or 
elliptic-lanceolate, up to five inches long and an inch and a half 
wide, with the apex acute or with a — slender point the margins 
are sharply serrate. The flowers have a diameter of about an 
inch, and are borne solitary or two or thie together, as in other 
peaches, on the ends of ascending spurs, or short branchlets; the 
glabrous sepals are elliptic-lanceolate, acute; the petals are obovate- 
— obtuse, blush or light pink, = “rarely white; the stamens 
are numerous, with glabrous filam The hairy fruit, which 
is sincnck He inch in diameter, is saat Spobalar and is grayish or 
yellowish, having a prominent suture; the small stone is nearly glob- 
ular, and is free from the dry whitish flesh. 
GEoRGE V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF PLaTE. Fig. 1—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Portion of 
stem and leaf, 
