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Is rich and plentiful. It is a good bearer : but its • 

 perfect ripening depends much on the soil and situa- 

 tion being dry and warm. It takes freely on the 

 muscle stock, and forms a handsome healthy tree. 

 The fruit remain long on the tree ; and sometimes 

 require matting on the approach of frost. Or if 

 gathered before they are quite ripe, they are im- 

 proved by being kept in a warm place. 



Kyle and Nicol, both intelligent Scotch gardeners, 

 recommended this with the yellow admirable for 

 forcing. Whether these persons wrote from experi- 

 ence, the writer is ignoraut ; but he never knew of 

 either being forced in England, He has seen the 

 yellow admirable, called by the French abricotee, in 

 a garden at Wandsworth near London, a fine showy 

 fruit, of a dark yellow colour, with a few streaks of 

 ^red on the sun side. The pulp was neither melting, 

 nor yet could it be called a pavie, it was something 

 between both : but it was full of sweet juice, and 

 altogether a fair kind of peach. Another called the 

 scarlet admirable, or dragon, has been met with by 

 the writer. This is also a fine, showy, high coloured 

 fruit ; but in the place where he saw it in great per- 

 fection, the gardener said it was chiefly used for 

 tarts. Many of the celebrated American peaches are 

 of this description. At least so turns out the famous 

 George the Fourth of American origin : and the 

 President which followed, is not one whit better. 

 From all accounts however, peaches are cultivated 

 from seed with great facility in the United States. 

 The stones are sown on a seed bed thickly ; the most 



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