THE PEACH. 



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Early Anne. 



Anne. Green Nutmeg. 



The Early Anne is an old and familiar English sort. The tree is 

 of slender growth. Leaves serrated, without glands. Flowers large, 

 nearly white. 



Fruit rather small, round. Skin white, with a faint tinge of red 

 next the sun. Flesh white to the stone, soft, melting, sweet, and of 

 pleasant flavor. Last of July and first of August. 



Fay's Early Anne, a seedling of the above, by Lincoln Fay, of Chau- 

 tauque Co., N. Y., is larger and better. Ripens a week or two later, 

 and just before Early York (serrate). Skin whitish, sometimes slightly 

 tinged with red. Flesh white, juicy, melting, and very good. 



Early Beatrice. 



This Peach, says its originator, Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, 

 England, is the earliest sort known, ripening from 5th to 1 1th of July. 

 Leaves with reniform glands. Flowers large. 



Fruit medium size, with a marbled red cheek. Flesh melting, very 

 juicy. 



Early Chelmsford. 

 Mammoth. 



Leaves glandless. 



Fruit large, roundish. Suture clear round, deep on one side. Skin 

 white, with a bright red cheek. Flesh white, very melting and juicy, 

 of a very delicious, slightly vinous flavor. Freestone. 20th to last of 

 August. 



Early Grosse Mignonne. 

 Grosse Mignonne Hative . Mignonne Hative. 



This is a very fine Peach, ripening early in August. Glands globose. 

 Flowers large. 



Fruit medium, roundish, pitted at apex. Nipple one side, and shal- 

 low suture. Skin with a pale red cheek in the sun, dotted thickly with 

 bright crimson dots. Flesh white, veined with red, very juicy, vinous^, 

 sweet. Freestone. (Hogg.) 



Early Louise. 



Seedling of Thomas Rivers. Glands reniform. Flowers smalL 

 Fruit medium, bright red. Flesh melting, juicy, excellent. Free- 

 stone . July 1 2th to 1 6th. (Rivers' Cat.) 



Early Malden. 



Raised by James Dougall, Canada West. Flowers smalL Leaves 

 glandless. 



Fruit medium, roundish, one side enlarged. Suture distinct on one 

 side. Skin whitish, mostly shaded with red in the sun.- Flesh white, 

 juicy, melting, sprightly. Freestone. Middle of August. 



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