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PEACHES. 



tive to it from the Pomological Magazine, a work published 

 under the auspices of that society. 



*' A good deal of curiosity has been felt in England, with 

 respect to the peaches of North America, of the merits of 

 which much has been reported by travellers from that country. 

 There is no doubt that those kinds, beneath the fierce summer 

 sun of the United States, fully merit the eulogium that has 

 been passed upon them ; but it is equally certain, that they 

 are almost uniformly worthless in the climate of Great 

 Britain. There are, however, some exceptions, two of which 

 deserve particularly to be recorded ; of these, the George 

 the Fourth is one, and that which is now represented is the 

 other. The President peach is, with us, a rich, melting, juicy 

 fruit, ripening in the end of September, and is, therefore, va- 

 luable on account of the late period of its maturity. Of course 

 it requires a south wall, and care must be taken that it is per- 

 fectly ripe before being gathered. Flowers small, deep red ; 

 leaves crenated, with globose glands ; fruit large, roundish, 

 approaching to oval, with a shallow suture ; skin very downy, 

 dull red next the sun, pale yellowish green in the shade ; flesh 

 whitish, juicy, rich, and high flavoured, parting freely from 

 the stone, which is large, pointed, and very rugged." 



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This tree produces small blossoms ; the fruit is of medium 

 size, so far as opportunities have yet allowed me to judge ; 

 the skin on the side next the sun, is quite red, but its colour 

 diminishes towards the shaded side ; even there, however, it 

 generally has some touches of red and numerous dots of the 

 same hue ; the form is roundish, but in some cases the diame- 

 ter exceeds its height. On some specimens of the fruit I have 

 noticed a plainly marked suture running through one side, and 

 a partial one on the other side, while other specimens presented 

 scarcely any appearance of a suture, its usual location being 

 merely marked on one side by a variation in the colour of the 

 skin; there is a cavity at the extremity of the fruit but no ma- 

 melon ; the flesh is a pale yellowish white, with considerable 



