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THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



yellowish white, very tender, melting, and very juicy, with a sweet and 

 luscious flavour. Flowers, large. Leaves, without glands. 

 A first-rate early peach, ripening in the beginning of August. 



It was raised by Mr. Eirers from Early York, than which it is rather earlier, and 

 was named in honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. 



Early Vineyard. See Grosse Mignonne. 



EAELY YORK. — Fruit, medium sized, roundish inclining to ovate, 

 marked on one side with a shallow suture. Skin, very thin, delicate 

 greenish white, dotted with red in the shade, but dark red next the sun. 

 Flesh, greenish white, melting, very juicy, vinous and richly flavoured. 

 Flowers, large. Leaves, without glands. 



One of the best early peaches. Ripe in the beginning and middle of 

 August. 



The only disadvantage the Early York possesses is that the tree is so 

 liable to mildew, like most of the glandless-leaved varieties. A preferable 

 form of it is a seedling raised from it by Mr Rivers, which has glands 

 on the leaves. The tree of this does not suffer from mildew, and the 

 fruit is exactly the same as that of Early York. See Rivers' Early 

 York. 



Edgar's Late Melting. See Chancellor. 

 English Galande. See Violette Hdtive. 



EXQUISITE. — Fruit, of immense size, being ten and a half inches 

 in circumference, and weighing nine and a half ounces ; roundish oval 

 in shape, marked with a distinct suture, and terminated at the apex by a 

 sharp nipple. Skin, yellow as that of an apricot, vrith a dark crimson 

 mottled cheek on the side next the sun. Flesh, deep yeUow, veined 

 and stained with deep blood-red at the stone, tender, melting, juicy, 

 rich and vinous. Flowers, small. Leaves, with round glands. 



This is a noble peach, and one of delicious flavour ; it was raised 

 in Georgia, U.S.A., and introduced to this country by Mr. Rivers. It 

 ripens in the middle of September. 



FLAT CHINA {China Peach; Java Peach).— The shape of this 

 peach is very remarkable. It is quite flat and deeply hoUowed, both at 

 the crown and the stalk, so that a section of it is somewhat like the 

 figure 00. It is about two inches and a half in diameter, and not more 

 than three quarters of an inch thick. Skin, pale yellow, mottled with 

 red on the side next the sun. Flesh, pale yeUow, red at the stone, and 

 of good flavour. Flowers, large. Leaves, with kidney-shaped glands. 



It first fruited in the garden of Mr. Braddick, of Thames Ditton, who sent it to 

 the Horticultural Society in 1819. All the trees existing at the time in this country 

 were killed by the severe frost of 1838, and it was again introduced by the Koval 

 Horticultural Society in 1868 from the Continent. 



Forster's Early. See Grosse Mignonne. 



French Galande. See Bdlegarde. 



