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PEACH. 



which it sometimes throws up shoots standard-high 

 in the first year. 



This peach is as much esteemed in France as in 

 England. The gardeners there call it la bonne d'An- 

 gleterre, 



31. Incomparable P. — Ripe about the beginning 

 of October, sooner or later according to the season. 

 This is a pavie of considerable merit, and deserves 

 a place in every collection, were it for nothing else 

 than the size and rich beauty of the fruit. The 

 leaves are large, and finely sawed ; the flowers 

 small ; fruit large, irregularly round, and finely 

 mottled with pale and deep red on a yellow ground. 

 The pulp has a yellow cast, but red at the stone, to 

 which it firmly adheres. Juice rather plentiful for 

 so late a fruit, and keeps for a considerable time 

 after being gathered. It takes freely on the muscle 

 plum, and grows luxuriantly, requiring full space 

 on the wall. The fruit is not of sufficient excellence 

 to be recommended for forcing. 



32. Catherine P. — Ripens in October and No- 

 vember. A most useful and well-known sort, raised 

 in this country before the commencement of the last 

 century. 



The leaves are finely serrated : flowers small, red, 

 and much contracted ; fruit full middle size, rather 

 oval, and irregular in shape, having one side of the 

 furrow higher than the other. The skin is velvety, 

 with a little marbled red next the sun, and greenish 

 white next the wall. The pulp is firm, red at the 

 tone, to which it adheres : in some seasons the juice 



