PEACHES. 217 



striped with dark red ; size, 1 ; quality, 1 ; season, August ; 

 freestone. 



Eemarks. — Origin, New Jersey. Siioots, dark reddish 

 purple. It is a singular and peculiar fruit. Mr. Coxe, 

 one of the best and earliest writers on fruit in this coun- 

 try, very practical, and whose work is now becoming 

 scarce, raised it. — Coxe's work abounds with good shaded 

 likenesses, engraved on wood, of all of the first-rate fruits 

 of America. Mr. Coxo considers the texture of this peach 

 very like a pine apple, rich, juicy, and of very excellent 

 flavor. Very fine. Specimens of this fruit were exhib- 

 ited at our Fall Exhibition, in 1856 and 1856, by Mr. Bush 

 of Covington, and others. Mr. Bush has succeeded well 

 with many fine fruits, and particularly with plums, last 

 year (1856) saved from the Curculio in a yard where poul- 

 try roosted and ran. His Eawle's Janets are always 

 .splendid, with several other kinds. This may, in part, 

 be attributed very much to the favorable soil and hilly 

 situation in Kentucky, adjacent to Cincinnati. It is 

 greatly favorable, also, to the growth of strawberries and 

 raspberries. The hills are very healthy, and what is 

 healthy for animal life, has the same effect, in a great 

 measure, upon vegetable tissues. 



CEAWFOED'S BAELY. Form, obovate, ovate ; leaves, 

 globose, in their glands; flow-ers, small; flesh, yellow, 

 juicy ; color, yellow, red cheek ; size, 1 ; quality, 1 ; sea- 

 son, August; freestone. , 



Eemarks. — • Of American origin. For market it is 

 planted largely by all cultivators as the best of the yellow 

 fleshed varieties. It is a very prolific bearer. The fruit 

 is rich and sweet, if it has the benefit and advantage of a 

 sunny exposure ; otherwise, in the shade, it is slightly 

 acid. This is another of the most valuable kinds raised 

 in this country, from seed. It is not so common here to 

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