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PEACHES. 



it. The fact is, the same tree will mildew in one season, and 

 not in another. A remedy, or at least a preventive in a great 

 measure for this, is to keep the grounds cleai? and in good 

 condition, and to see that there be nothing to obstruct a free 

 circulation of air, and a full admission of sun. 



" In addition to the synonymes above enumerated, it is ex- 

 tremely probable that Lord Fauconberg's Mignonne, the Early 

 Royal George of the North of England, and the Grandville 

 peach, are the same. It is also almost beyond a doubt, that 

 the Madeleine Rouge a petites fleurs of the French, is the ori- 

 ginal of the whole of them. 



" Flowers small ; leaves serrated, glandless ; fruit large, 

 globular, moderately deeply marked by the suture along one 

 side, with generally a slight depression on the summit ; skin 

 dark purplish red where not exposed, the shaded side is whit- 

 ish, the intermediate space between the shaded and most ex- 

 posed part is thickly mottled with small red dots ; flesh white, 

 rayed with red next the stone, melting, rich, with a plentiful, 

 highly-sugared juice ; stone middle-sized, or rather small, and 

 of a red colour, parting from the flesh." 



ISPAHAN. Pr. cat. N. Duh. 



This variety is a shrub of ten or twelve feet in height, and 

 forms a round thick bush, filled with numerous branches ; the 

 leaves are alternate, lanceolate, from one to two inches long, 

 smooth, of a lively green on the upper side, and a paler green 

 beneath, serrated, supported on short petioles, and devoid of 

 glands ; the flowers, although they are only twelve to thirteen 

 lines in diameter, may be ranked among those of large size, 

 on account of the form of the petals, which are round— they 

 are of a delicate rose colour ; the fruit is nearly spherical, 

 marked on one side by a deep furrow, and measures from three 

 inches to three inches nine lines in circumference in each direc- 

 tion ; the skin, which is covered with down and adheres to the 

 flesh, is at first greenish, but becomes pale yellow at the pe- 



