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ly set, that one of these little trees, loaded with fruit, 

 reminds the beholder of an immense bunch of mammoth 

 grapes." The same writer says, " It is prodigiously pro- 

 lific, and in quality of fruit has few if any superior. " 

 Van Wren's Golden is a seedling from the common 

 peach which came up in a bed of seedlings raised by Mr. 

 J. Van Buren, of Olarksville, Georgia. 



The Blood Clingstone. 



This is a very peculiar fruit, of large size, but very 

 inferior quality. Some admire it because it is odd ; and 

 it is sometimes used for pickles and preserves. We do 

 not admire it or regard it as either useful or ornamental. 

 Odd it certainly is. When viewed on the tree, it some' 

 what resembles, in its dark-red color, the prematures of 

 such varieties as the Smock or Crawford. It is appro- 

 priately named, for the flesh, when ripe, resembles more the 

 bloody flesh of a slaughtered animal, than anything else we 

 have ever seen. 



It is said to be an American seedling of the French 

 Sanguinole d Chair Adherente. 



Double Blossomed. 



This is a beautiful tree. It blooms with the Double 

 Flowering Cherry, and is a most suitable companion of 

 the latter. The flowers are of a beautiful rose-color, several 

 times as large as those of . the common peach. They 

 are thickly set and very showy. The fruit is of the 

 Clingstone variety. 



It may be dwarfed by budding on the Mirabelle 

 Plum stock. 



The fruit is of indifierent quality, sparsely set, and of a 

 greenish-yellow color, with a red tinge where exposed to 

 the sun. 



