THE PEACH. 



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to tlie color of the flesli — viz. : tliose with light-colored and 

 those with deep-yellow flesh. These classes are again 

 subdivided into three sections. 



At the base of the leaf, of some varieties, will be fonnd 

 small glands which are either round and regular, or oblong 

 and irregular, or kidney-shaped ; while others have no 

 glands, but are more deeply cut or serrated like the teeth 

 of a saw. 



SERRATED AXD GLA>DIJSS. GLOBOSE GLA>DS. KE>TFORM GLANDS 



Hence the three sections, viz.: 1., Leaves serrated with- 

 out glands, a.; 2. Leaves with small, round, or globose 

 glands, h. ; 3. Leaves with large irregular reniform glands, c. 



From*lhe blossom, another characteristic is derived, 

 giving us two subsections. The first embracing large 

 flowers, red in the centre, and pale at the margin. The 

 second, small flowers, tinged with dark at the margin. 

 Most of the native peaches, in this vicinity, belong to the 

 first class ; but the great mass of the finest fruits have 

 small flowers. 



Varieties. — The following varieties have been tried in 

 in this vicinity, and are found among the most desirable. 

 They are classed pretty much in the order of ripening,* 

 A full list of good clingstones in succession, from the 



* In 1852. two or three weeks earlier than the next year; so the 

 times of ripening, and even the order cannot be fully relied on. 



