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THE PEACH. 



Yellow Rareripe. 



Large Yellow Rareripe. Marie Antoinette. 



Red and Yellow Rareripe. Cutter's Yellow. 



One of the finest very early yellow-fleshed Peaches. It is an A meri- 

 can seedling, and well deserves the extensive cultivation it receives both 

 in the orchard and garden. Leaves with globose glands. Flowers small. 



Fruit large, roundish, the suture slightly depressed, extending more 

 than half round, the swollen point at the top small. Skin deep orange 

 yellow, somewhat dotted with red, the cheek rich red, shaded off in 

 streaks. Flesh deep yellow, but red at the stone, juicy, melting, with a 

 rich and excellent vinous flavor. Ripens from the 25th to the 30th of 

 August. Stone small. Freestone. 



CURIOUS OR ORNAMENTAL VARIETIES. 



Double-Blossomed. 



Double-Flowering Peach. Pecher a Fleurs Doubles. 



Rose-Flowering. Pecher a Fleurs Serni- Doubles. 



The Double-Blossomed Peach is, when in full bloom, one of the gay- 

 est and most beautiful of fruit-trees, and blooming with its lovely com- 

 panion, the Double-Flowering Cherry, finds a place in all our pleasure- 

 grounds and ornamental plantations. Its flowers are of a lively rose color, 

 nearly full double, and so thickly disposed on the branches as to be very 

 striking and showy. They are produced at the usual season, or a few 

 days later. This sort is rendered more dwarf for shrubberies by bud- 

 ding it upon the Mirabelle or the Cherry Plum stock. The leaves 

 have reniform glands. 



The fruit, which is sparingly produced, is roundish oval, pale green- 

 ish yellow, faintly tinged with red. Freestone, and of indifferent flavor. 



The Crimson or Camellia-flowered, with large double-flowers of 

 a rich crimson hue, especially attractive and showy, the Carnation- 

 flowered, with flowers striped like a carnation, and the Variegated- 

 flowered, with flowers of different hues on the same tree, are among 

 the more recent introductions, and, grouped with the older varieties, are 

 very effective. 



Flat Peach of China. 

 Chinese Peach. Java Peach. Peen To. 



A very singular variety, from China, where the gardeners affect all 

 manner of vegetable curiosities. The fruit is of small size, about two 

 inches in diameter, and so much flattened at the ends that only the skin 

 and the flat stone remain, the fleshy part being crowded on either side. 

 The tree is of rather dwarfish habit, and holds its leaves very late. The 

 fruit is of very good flavor, and is well worthy of a place in the gardens 

 of the curious. * Leaves with reniform glands. Flowers large. 



Fruit small, so much flattened as to form a deep hollow at both ends, 

 having at the top a singular broad, rough, five-angled eye. Skin pale 



* Should any one of our amateurs now possess it, we shall be much gratified 

 to receive buds of it. 



