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without glands ; flowers, large ; flesh, greenish white ; 

 color, pale greenish white ; two shades of red to sun ; size, 

 1 to 2; quality, 1; season, August; freestone. 



Eemarks. — English ; of the highest character. Wherever 

 it has been tried it has given great satisfaction. Most de- 

 licious and valuable. Tree, hardy and productive. 'No 

 cultivator should be without it. — In the London Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden, at Chiswick, even as early as 1826, 

 we find that they have at least fifty varieties of the native 

 peaches of America — the selection from the extensive na- 

 tive orchards of this fruit, raised in the Middle and "West- 

 ern States, for distillation and- other purposes. All these, 

 many of which are so fine in our climate, and which are 

 so grateful to travelers, as well as ourselves, with the ex- 

 ception of only two, are rejected as worthless,, not being 

 adapted to their latitude ; and, owing to the want of sun 

 and length of season, even on walls and the warmest as- 

 pects and situations to which they are obliged to confine 

 them. It is about the same with our other native fruits, 

 so superior in our own climate — on trial they are also 

 obliged to reject them — the splendid and delicious apples 

 of America^ — ^the selections of two centuries. On the other 

 hand, there are not, comparatively, a great number of 

 foreign fruits, particularly those of Northern latitudes, 

 which, when brought down to our own, do not lose a great 

 portion of that high reputation which they may have there 

 been entitled to, compared with our native seedlings. 

 There are, however, some foreign fruits which enjoy a lat- 

 itude more like our own, as the Mela Carle, from Italy, 

 one of the greatest apples in the world — at least it is so 

 considered — which do very well with us, although this 

 apple, in the climate of England, is a very ordinary fruit, 

 and although the temperature of our climate is very con- 

 siderably different from those parts of Europe, of Asia, 

 and of Africa, in latitudes which are very similar to them. 



