632 THE PEACH. : 
covered with dark red or purplish red in the sun. F-esh yel 
low, red at the stone, tendér, very juicy, of a delicious saccha- 
rine, and slightly subacid flavour. Freestone. Middle to last 
of September. (Cole.) 
Princr’s Exce.stor. 
Originated with William R. Prince, Flushing, Long Island. 
Fruit very large, round; suture slight, a mere line, ending ina 
flattened depression at top, where there is a slight cavity, and a 
little abortive mamelon. Skin a most splendid pure bright 
‘orange colour. Flesh golden yellow to the stone, very rich, lus- 
cious, aromatic, apricot, or exquisite orange flavour, sweet and 
rich; separates freely from ‘the stone. Ripens middle of’ Octo- 
ber: well suited to the South. (W. R. Prince’s MS.) 
Poole’s Late Yellow Freestone. 
f A very large peach, of the Melocoton family. It lately ori. 
‘ ( Pootz’s Larcr Yertow. Ken. 
ginated near Philadelphia, and bears fine crops. — 
Leaves with reniform glands.. Fruit large, roundish, with a 
‘suture extending from the base to the top. ‘Skin deep yellow, 
with a dark-red cheek. Flesh yellow, but red at the stone, rich, 
juicy, and of excellent flavour. Ripens last of September. 
Rep Curerx Metocoton.* Pom. Man. 
Malagatune. Yellow Malocoton. 
Malacatune, ° Yellow Malagatune. 
‘Hogg’s Melocoton.. Red-Cheek Malocoton. Coxe, 
The Melocoton (or Malagatune, as it is commonly called) is 
almost too well known to need description. Almost every or- 
chard and garden in the country contains it, and hundreds of 
thousands of bushels of the fruit are raised and sent to market 
in this country, every year. It is a beautiful. and fine fruit in 
favourable seasons, though in unfavourable ones the acid frequent- 
ly predominates somewhat in its flavour. It is an American 
seedling, and is constantly reproducing: itself under new forms, 
most of the varieties in this section having, directly or indirect- 
ly, been raised from it; the finest and most popular at the pre- 
sent time, being Crawford’s Early and Late Melocotons, both 
greatly superior, in every respect, to the original Melocoton. 
Leaves with glohose glands. Fruit large, roundish oval, witk 
a swollen point at the top. Skin yellow, with a deep-red check, 
* Melocoton is the Spanish for Peach. 
