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PEACH. 



It is a g'ood bearer, and forms a handsome tree 

 on the pear plum stock ; but requires much atten- 

 tion to ripen both the wood and fruit in unfavourable 

 seasons. It well deserves a peach house. 



28. Ramhouilht P, — Ripens between the middle 

 and end of September. The leaves are slightly ser- 

 rated ; flowers large ; fruit full middle size, nearly 

 globular, with a deep lateral furrow ; lively red to- 

 wards the sun, light yellow behind ; flesh substan- 

 tial, though melting ; parts from the stone, which 

 is very red. The juice is excellent, though not so 

 abundant as in some others. The tree is of a hardy 

 habit, and a good bearer ; and the fruit has one 

 quality which few other melters have — it bears car- 

 riage well, and keeps good two or three days after 

 it is gathered. It takes most kindly on the muscle 

 plum stock. 



N, B, — The foregoing twenty-eight sorts of melt- 

 ing peaches, together with the four pavies which 

 follow, the author can recommend with the utmost 

 confidence to planters. The accounts given, are 

 drawn from long personal experience, and may be 

 relied on ; and he conceives enough are enumerated, 

 whence a suflacient collection may be made for every 

 purpose of a planter, and for any establishment 

 whatever. 



29. Smith's Earli/ Newington P. — In perfection 

 from the beginning to the middle of September. An 

 early pavie, or clingstone, raised from a seed of the 

 well known old Newington. The leaves are doubly 

 sawed ; the flowers large, and pale red ; fruit ful 



