ANALYSIS OF THE PEACH. 



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the best quality, just as they are ripe enough to eat; 

 halve thim, remove the stones, and sprinkle over them, in 

 the hollow from which the pit was taken, a little nice 

 sugar, and dry them in a brick oven, after the bread, &c., 

 is withdrawn. Thus prepared, the aroma and flavor is 

 retained, and they are free from insects. If the peaches 

 are fully ripe, no cooking is required, but the dried fruit is 

 simply soaked out in cold or warm water. Sufficient 

 sugar, varying with the acidity of the fruit, is added be- 

 fore drying. The firm yellow-fleshed peaches, of a high 

 vinous flavor, are best for drying. Peaches thus prepared 

 are only inferior to the fresh fruit, of which they retain 

 much of the flavor. Dried in the usual way, from unripe 

 fruit, exposed to the sun, much of the flavor is dissipated. 

 Peaches are excellent, preserved, in Arthur's Self-sealing 

 Cans, according to the directions given with the cans. 



Analysis. — We give an analysis of the peach, by Salis- 

 bury :— 



Potash, \ 



Soda, i 



Chloride of So 



dium, 



Chloride of Vo 



tassium, . . ., 

 Sulphuric Acid. 

 Carbonic Acid! 



Lime, '. 



Magnesia, 



Phosphate Pe 



rox. Iron,. . . 

 Phosph. Lime, . 

 Pliosph. Mag 



nesia, 



Organic matter 

 Insoluble Sil 



Coal, 



Bark 



of 

 Trunk. 



Wood 



of 

 Trunk. 



Bark 

 of 

 Root. 



Wood 



of 

 Root. 



Leaves. 



Pits.* 



Bark of 

 Limbs, t 



Wood of 

 Limbs.f 



1.20 



7.11 

 11,15 



3.162 

 1.92 



8.58 

 15.92 



12.41 



18.47 

 5.21 



8.85 



19.21 

 8.11 



0.04 



0.16 



0.33 



5.60 





2.70 



0.28 



0.24 



4. 16 



" i'.si 



3,44 



0.58 



0.36 

 12.12 



15.12 



6.18 



8.07 



42.17 

 2.16 



23.26 

 6.40 



38.48 

 2.91 



0.11 

 0.01 



14.77 

 8.00 



16.80 

 133 



31.98 

 6.00 



24.64 

 9.76 



0.45 

 18.79 



0.32 

 29.19 



j 10.40 1 



1.02 

 18.10 



2.47 

 10.44 



1.33 

 17.98 



1.60 

 8.50 



0.60 

 13.20 



0.01 

 3.30 



1.34 

 5.20 



3.60 



30.00 

 2.55 



3.15 

 0.86 



0.02 

 6-61 



0.20 

 5.00 



0.20 

 8.40 



4.15 



1.35 



9-40 

 1.40 



6.46 



6.42 

 4.48 



10.00 



4 30 

 1.00 



1.00 

 1.20 











109.04 



104.97 



104.562 



89.02 



86.85 



128.77 



99.O3I 104.99 



• Analysis made with two grains of ash. t Peach limbs half an inch in diameter. 



