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variety, and is very large, melting and rich, of a bright orange and red 

 colour, presenting a rich contrast on the dessert table to most other 

 sorts. 



Early Beatrics. — This and Early Louise, Early Leopold, and Early 

 Eivers, is one of the most valuable of all Mr. Eivers' seedlings, coming 

 in in the open air from the middle to the end of July, in favourable 

 localities. The Early Beatrice is a medium sized yellowish peach, 

 almost covered with bright red, has a rich, juioy, melting flesh, and 

 a good flavour. 



8tvm/p the World. — ^A rough, rude name, but a fine, tender, riohj 

 delicious peach, of large size and pale yellow colour, dotted with red. 



For a collection of twenty-four of the best peaches add — 



Ea/rVy Grosse Mignonne. — ^Eipens in August, and in other respects 

 resembles the Orosse Mignonne ; one of the finest of all early peaches. 



Ycmguard. — ^A robust and hardy variety of Noblesse, and less 

 subject to mildew than that fine variety. 



Mctgdala (Biverg). — This is a fine, almost smooth-skinned peach, 

 raised from Bivers' Orange Nectarine, and it combines the flavour of the 

 peach and nectarine ; the colour is a creamy white, marbled with 

 crimson ; ripe from middle to end of August. 



Lady Palmerston. — This fine peach was raised from a stone of the 

 Fine Apple Nectarine, and partakes, to some extent, of its rich vinous 

 flavour. It is H, large handsome peach, of a greenish-yellow colour, 

 marbled with crimson ; it ripens towards the end of September, and is a 

 robust grower. 



Late Admirable. — ^This is still one of the best late peaches in 

 cultivation, and is a much snrer cropper than the Walburton Admirable, 

 often recommended in preference to it ; October. 



SaVixanj. — ^A fine yellow late peach, of excellent quality, ripening as 

 late as the beginning of November, and yet having a rich, juicy, melting 

 flesh and a vinous flavour. 



Fortunately there are far fewer nectarines than peaches, and therefore 

 the work of selection is less difficult. Parkinson enumerates six varieties, 

 the Musk, the Boman Bed, the Bastard Bed, the Yellow, the Grreen, and 

 the White. To these Bay adds the Murrey, the Tawny, the Busset, 

 the Fainted, the Variegated, and the Algiers Nectarine. 



Miller enumerates ten varieties — Fairohild's Early, Elmge, 

 Newington, Scarlet Mignon, or Italian, Bed Boman, Mnrrey, Golden, 

 Temple's, and Peterborough. To these Loudon adds the Violette H^tive, 

 White Flanders, Early Newington, White Geux, Bogers' Seedling, and 

 Claremont. 



