YARIETIES or PEACHES. 



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Acton Scot is a handsome and excellent peach. 

 Although the fruit is rather below the middle size, it is 

 sweet and pretty good in flavour. The fruit is narrowed 

 and depressed at the apex, rather woolly in the skin, 

 pale yellow, with mottling of bright red on the sunny 

 side, and the flesh is melting, and yellowish- white to the 

 stone, from which it separates readily. It is fuller on 

 one side than on the other^ and the suture is shallow. 

 It is ripe the end of August and beginning of Sep- 

 tember. It is said to have been raised from Noblesse, 

 crossed with Eed IS'utmeg, a small, hardy, very early 

 peach. 



Early Admirable is scarcely well named early, as it is 

 less early than some others. The fruit is nearly round, 

 above the middle size, juicy, and well-flavoured. It is 

 yellowish-white, with a beautiful red cheek, and the 

 flesh is white, getting red at the stone, from which it 

 separates easily. It usually ripens in September, but it 

 has been known to ripen in August. The leaves are 

 crenate, with globose glands, and the flowers pale red, 

 and of medium size. 



The Late Admirable is one of our best kinds, with 

 large, somewhat oval fruit, which is juicy and high- 

 flavoured, with delicate, melting, greenish-tinted flesh, 

 turning to red near the stone, from which it separates 

 easily. The suture is deep, the shape regular and a 

 little depressed on the summit, where there is generally 

 a small, pointed nipple. The colour is palish-green or 

 yellow, with streaky red on the sunny side. The leaves 

 are crenate, with globose glands, and the tree bears small 

 red flowers. It is hardy, and most deserving of a place 

 in any garden, but it does best on a south or south-east 

 wall. E/oyale is another of its names. 



The Grrosse Mignonne is a hardy, good sort, which 

 keeps very well. The fruit is large, hollowed at the 

 summit, larger on one side than on the other, juicy, 

 melting, and with a rich, pleasant flavour. The suture 

 is of medium depth, the skin not very downy, mottled 

 with red on a yellow ground, and deepening to a full 

 red on the sunny side. The flesh is pale yellow, with 



