THE PEACH. 95 
Mr. George Lindley, whose arrangement is the best that 
has hitherto been published, enumerates 60 kinds of 
peaches and 28 of nectarines. In the Horticultural 
Society’s Catalogue the names of 183 peaches, and of 65 
nectarines, are recorded. We doubt not but that in 
America, where the trees are commonly raised from kernels, 
and grown as standards, endless ‘varieties and sub-varieties 
might be collected. To enumerate even the limited number 
existing in Britain would far exceed our limits; we shall, 
therefore, notice only a few of those which are most distinct 
and best adapted to the English climate. 
PEACHES. 
Red Nutmeg, or Avant rouge of the French.—This is 
one of the earliest peaches, ripening in England about the 
beginning of: August. The fruit small; color pale yellow 
towards the wall, bright vermillion next the sun; pulp 
white, but red at the core; the juice rich and musky. The 
tree is an abundant bearer. 
Grosse Mignonne, L. Hort. Cat., or Neil’s Early Pur- 
ple.—Fruit large; skin pale yellow, and deep purple next 
the sun; flesh melting; juice plentiful, and of delicious 
flavor. The tree is a good bearer, and forces well, but the 
fruit does not bear carriage. It ripens in the end of Au- 
gust and beginning of September. 
Madeleine de Courson; Red Magdalen of Miller.— 
Blossoms large; fruit rather below the middle size; color 
yellowish-white next the wall, beautiful red next the sun; 
flesh white, with very little red at the stone; juice rich and 
vinous. Tree a good bearer; fruit ripening about the be- 
ginning of September. “An excellent peach,” says Mr. 
Lindley, “and ought to be found in every collection.” 
