203 PEACH CULTDEB. 



Pben To. 



This is a Chinese variety, and quite singular. It is a 

 flat peach, about two inches in diameter. The flesh is 

 produced on the sides only, the ends being flattened down 

 to the stone. The tree is small, but has a fine foliage, 

 which holds till late in the fall. It is a freestone. The fruit 

 is of good flavor. The flesh except a small circle around 

 the stone is yellow, sweet, juicy and spicy. It ripens 

 from the middle of August to the 10th of September. 



Chinese Crooked Peach. 



We name it thus for want of a better, and as indicative 

 of its shape, which is long and crooked. The seed was 

 brought from China, some eight or ten years ago, by a 

 gentleman of Philadelphia, who owns several plantations 

 on the Peninsula. He gave it to some professional nur- 

 serymen of that city for propagation. They succeeded in 

 rearing some trees, whit-h the gentleman had planted on 

 his own lands. In 1869, the trees bore a crop ; of this 

 the gentleman says: "The trees are eight or nine years 

 old, and this summer bore freely. The peaches are re- 

 markable for their great sweetness. After falling upon 

 the ground, they remaineil several weeks undeeayed ; but 

 they were too small, and too odd in their appearance to 

 be marketable, and must be mainly regarded as a curi- 

 osity. They do well under glass, and, kept as dwarf trees, 

 are very ornamental." 



Reid's Weeping Peach. 



This was originated by Mr. William Reid of Murray Hill 

 nurseries, Elizabeth, N. J. It is a very peculiar variety 

 with weeping branches, and a habit much like that of the 

 weeping ash. It sho«s to great advantage when budded 

 on a peach or plum stock nl^ont six foet from the ground. 

 In doing this, a straight clear stock should be selected. 



