PEACHES. 



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HYSLOP'S CLINGSTONE. Pr. cat. 



This variety was so called, in consequence of its being 

 cultivated by David Hyslop, Esq. of Brookline, near Boston, 

 who disseminated scions of it more than twenty years ago. I 

 am not apprised whether it originated with him, or if it may 

 not have been previously cultivated by others under a different 

 title. The fruit is of a large size, and its form rather round, 

 but inchning to oval ; the skin is white, coloured with deep 

 pink or crimson on the sunny side ; the flesh very juicy, and of 

 a superior vinous flavour. A very intelligent Boston corres- 

 pondent remarks to me, that this peach is for the climate of 

 New-England what the Heath clingstone is to Virginia, and 

 that it is there esteemed the best of all very late peaches. It 

 ripens in October, but may be preserved until in November. 



EARLY RED CLLNGSTONE. Pr. cat. Lond. hoet. cat. 



This fruit has been cultivated in the Flushing nurseries for 

 sixty years or more ; its origin is not known, but it may have 

 been brought from France by the French protestants who 

 settled there at the time of the revocation of the edict of 

 Nantz, they having brought the Pomme d'Api, Summer Bon 

 Chretien, and other fine fruits, at that period. It is an excel- 

 lent peach, and ripens as early as the Red Rareripe. The 

 flowers are of small size, and the ends of the young shoots are 

 subject to blanch or mildew. 



CONGRESS. Pr. cat. Lond. hort. cat. 



This tree produces flowers of medium size ; the fruit is 

 large, and of an oval form ; the skin is of a greenish colour 

 on one side, and red on the other; the quality is tolerably 

 good, and it is at maturity in the month of August. This 

 tree was first cultivated by Alfred Livingston, Esq. who estab- 

 lished an extensive nursery at West-Chester, in this State, and 

 from whom it probably received its name. 



