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a tree of each variety, and so their merits have not been tested ; but 

 the Early Louise is spoken of in the highest terms. The figures are 

 taken from specimens kindly sent me by Mr. Rivers. 



The Victoria is another early peach ; it has been very fine for some 

 years, but last year it was comparatively worthless. I grow also the Early 



TP.„ f 1 T ■ i ^^^- 320 — Early Beatrice. 



Fig. 319. — Early Louise. ^ # j j 



Alfred, but it has not as yet fruited. The Abec has fine large fruit, with 

 large ornamental flowers. The Grosse Migtionne (fig. 321) is highly 

 extolled by pomologists ; but peaches with down upon the skin are 

 not agreeable to me, as I think them greatly inferior to the Noblesse 

 (fig. 322), which is far more delicious in flavour. The George the Fourth 



Fig. 321. — Early Grosse 

 Mignonne^ 



Fig. 322. — Noblesse. 



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Fig. 323. — Bellegard. 



Fig. 324. — Late Admirable. 



is another most excellent peach, but very liable to fungous growth. 

 The Bellegard (fig. 323) is a fine fruit, and the Late Admirable (fig. 324) 

 is a peach of the largest size, which ripens when all the other kinds 

 have passed away, and is, when thoroughly in perfection, a fruit of 

 the highest order of merit. 



In my orchard -house the peach-trees are grown as trained trees before 

 the glass, as bushes, and as standards. Nothing can be -more interesting 

 than to see one of my peach standards covered with its beautiful fruit, 

 and nothing can rival the quality of the fruit when it is so grown. 

 ■ All the figures of peaches and nectarines are drawn one-third of their diameter. 



