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FRUIT GARDEN COMPANION. 



retained their different varieties so long and uniform 

 as the cherry, and in which a few varieties will 

 serve to answer every purpose in domestic cookery, 

 and please almost every palate as a dessert. The dif- 

 ferent varieties of the Tartarian, which undoubtedly 

 originated in and received their name from Tartary, 

 can be dated back two centuries, and the same may 

 be said of the Kentish red cherry and many kinds of 

 the " heart" which probably received their first 

 name from their original locality and the form of 

 the fruit. 



Art. 3. — On the Culture of the Peach. 



The Peach is a native of Persia, France and 

 other temperate climates, and in many parts of the 

 United States. Wildings spring up from seed and 

 produce tolerable good fruit in propitious seasons. 

 Indeed there are few kinds of fruit which produce 

 better from the wildings than the peach, and hence 

 many trees are planted and never worked with the 

 superior kinds, which however, is a system not to 

 be recommended, for the trouble is trifling, and the 

 time lost in the growth not above a year at the most ; 

 consequently good varieties of known qualities may 

 be propagated and grown to the very best advan- 

 tage. 



The peach is a fruit of the first order for the dessert, 

 and is used many ways in domestic cookery, as tarts 

 or preserves, and in the southern states is used with 

 milk in its raw state after being skinned and quartered. 

 The species are numerous and varieties undeter- 

 mined and new varieties of acknowledged merit are 

 daily adding to the list of long standing qualities of 

 imported kinds. 



