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PEACHES. 



after the Grosse Mignouneo It is cultivated in the Jardin des 

 Plantes at Paris. 



ROUND TRANSPARENT. Pr. cat. 



Transparente Ronde. N. Duh, and of some French catalogues. 



This tree produces flowers of a beautiful rose colour, about 

 fourteen lines in diameter, and its leaves are furnished with re- 

 niform glands. This last character forms its especiaFdistinc- 

 tion from the Grosse Mignonne, as the fruit differs but little 

 from that variety, except in point of size — it being only twenty- 

 two to twenty-three lines in height, by two inches at most in 

 diameter; its form, colour, and flavour do not present on their 

 part any essential differences ; the stone is more oblong in pro- 

 portion to the size of the fruit, measuring thirteen to fourteen 

 lines in length, with a peculiar point, ordinarily very project- 

 ing, and is nine to ten lines in its greatest diameter, and very 

 perceptibly contracted towards its base. This peach is culti- 

 vated in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and ripens at the end 

 of August, or beginning of September. I introduced it to 

 this country from the South of France, about six or seven 

 years since. 



English CHANCELLOR. Pk. cat. 

 Chancellor. Pom. Mag. Mil. Lond. Hort. cat. No. 40. 



This peach, which is by no means uncommon, is said to be 

 ^^tinct from the fruit of the same name in the French gardens, 

 which is described by Duhamel as having large flowers. In 

 other respects, however, the two seem to be much alike. 



is generally considered, that the English Chancellor peach 

 is t\m variety alluded to by Duhamel in describing the true 

 ki^d. In the Jardin Fruitier the true Chancellor is stated to 

 fesemble the Chevrease hative, which this does also, except in 

 l^ii^g later* It is earlier than the late Chevreuse ; and, ex- 

 cept those two, there is no peach in the section to which it be- 



