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to the Yellow Melocoton, but is considerably earlier. I dis- 

 covered the original seedling tree, when a schoolboy, growing 

 in a field about two miles from the village of Flushing. And 

 what is somewhat singular, the exceedingly valuable seedling 

 apple which I have named the Sinequanon, I found growing 

 in the same enclosure. This peach has been renamed in some 

 gardens the Maria Antoinette ; and I have noticed that in one 

 catalogue, this name has caused further error, it having been 

 there noted as a French variety. The tree bears abundantly. 



GREEN WINTER, Pr. cat. 

 This is a round clingstone of small size, suitable for pre- 

 serves ; the flowers are of large size. In the month of Octo- 

 ber it is at maturity ; the skin is perfectly green, and the fruit 

 generally fair, and one and a quarter to one and a half inches 

 in diameter ; the flesh is very firm, and adheres closely to the 

 stone. It is not valuable as a table fruit, but makes beautiful 

 preserv^s^which retain their green colour perfectly. It is 

 usu^H/ the latest fruit of the peach kind to be met with in the 

 markets. 



ORANGE CLINGSTONE. Pk. cat. 

 This is a perfectly round fruit, whose skin is of a beautiful 

 orange colour. The flesh is of the same colour, and of a 

 pleasant aromatic flavour ; the flowers are of large size. The 

 tree is productive, the fruit bears transportation well, and 

 ripens in the month of August. 



VAN ZANDT'S SUPERB. Pr. cat. 

 Waxen Rareripe. 

 This is a delicious freestone, which originated in the garden 

 of Benson Van Zandt, Esq. of Flushing. The form inclines 

 to an oval ; the flesh is melting, juicy, and of fine flavour ; 

 but its greatest peculiarity is in the colour of its skin, which 

 is considerably mottled, and of a most beautiful waxen appear- 

 ance. In point of beauty in this respect, there is perhaps no 

 peach that surpasses it. Two seedling trees growing near 

 each other in the same garden, produce identically the same 

 fruit. The flowers are of small size. 



