164 THE MODERN PEACH PRUNER, 



taining to a race. Seedling No. 22 is an illustra- 

 tion of this. In making my collection of every 

 kind of Peach known in Europe and America, I 

 some years since received that largest of all Peaches, 

 Pavie de Pompone. Owing to its great size and 

 to its beautiful rose-like flowers I always felt much 

 interest in it, but its fruit was seldom fit to eat. 

 It was not till 1857 that I thought of raising seed- 

 lings from it, for I had slight hopes of raising a 

 melting Peach from a clingstone. I planted, how- 

 ever, some stones ; one tree grew, and produced 

 melting Peaches, rather late, but of good quality. 

 It was named the Princess of Wales. This variety 

 has much of the robust habit of its parent, and 

 gives the same grand flowers. The seedling raised 

 from this departed widely from the parent stock, 

 producing small flowers and melting fruit, but not 

 large. In 1862 stones of the Princess of Wales 

 Peach were planted, one of which produced fruit 

 in 1865. This seedling gives fruit firm like its 

 ancestor, Pavie de Pompone, though a melting 

 Peach. This is a case of adherence to race. 



" In 1815 the late Mr. Williams, of Pitmaston, 

 planted stones of the Elruge, which has a white 

 flesh and small flowers, and one of these produced 

 a tree which gave large beautiful flowers, and was 

 called the Pitmaston Orange Nectarine. It was the 

 first full-sized orange Nectarine known in England. 



