PEACHES, 



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PEACHES . — F^chers — Amygdalus Persica. 



25 cts. each, except where noted otherwise. 



Trees suitable for Dwarfs or Espaliers can be supplied of all the varieties. 



N. B. Large Qu.iNTiTiES at very reduced prices, and a Supplement Catalogue comprising those best suited for 

 market will be sent to applicants with low wholesale rates. 



If any person desires to have peaches on plum-stocks, such will be supplied. Experience, however, has proven them 

 valueless for standards, and only suited to a dwarf habit when trained on walls, &c. The sap of the plum is altogether 

 insufficient to sustain the vigorous growth of the peach in open culture beneath our powerful sun, our climate greatly 

 assimilating to that of Persia, the natural country of the peach. The consequence is that trees budded on the plum 

 begin to fail after the second year, overgrow the plum-stock, and either break off or perish from exhaustion after a short 

 lapse of time ; and even while livuig, they present but a dwarf, pigmy appearance, when contrasted with those which 

 are inoculated on the natural stock as is practised in Persia. These remarks equally apply to the Nectarine, the Apricot, 

 and the Almond, as with all these classes of fruit the practice referred to has long been exploded by intelligent culUvaCors, 

 and we therefore refrain from recommending them, deeming such trees an imposition upon the public. 



The present collection of Peaches is superior to any other existing in Europe or America, and is the result of long 

 and untiring assiduity in collecting the finest varieties from every part of the world, and forming the largest specimen 

 orchard that has ever existed, and selecting therefrom, by careful investigation, those proven to be the most estimable. 

 No person can realize the confusion existing in the Nursery Collections of the Peach even in France and England, 

 and the same variety has been imported in some instances six times before the genuine variety was obtained. The 

 expense of these repeated importations, and the losses by death on the voyages, have caused many varieties to cost SS to 

 $10 each before we succeeded in obtaining a genuine living tree. The mass of errors and confusion existing in the 

 American Collections is utterly astonishing, and the public need some positive criterion by which to test their accuracy. 

 Most fortunately nature has furnished unerring guides, and we have a perfect safeguard in the Glands on the foliage, 

 and in the ISize and Colour of the blossoms. Guided by these the purchaser need not wait for the fruit to test the accu- 

 racy of trees, but can decide in most instances as soon as he sees the foliage and flowers. Not a tree will be sent by us 

 that does not precisely correspond in all points with the characteristics here given, and we urge all amateurs to exercise 

 full circumspection in all their purchases, and thus guard themselves against error and deception. It will be perceived 

 that the period of maturity has been carefully revised and perfected. In regard to quality, nearly all the varieties in 

 our Descriptive List are of the first class, a few only of the second class being retained on account of their other esti- 

 mable properties. 



Abbreviations. Additional to those named at page 7th. 



Leaves. S, serrated without glands ; G, globose glands ; R, reniform glands. 



Flowers. L, large ; M, medium ; S, small. 



Color, pk, pink ; o, orange. 



Size. 1, largest; 2, medium; 3, small. 











Class I.- 



—Freestones or Melters. 













Name. 



Color. 





> 



Flowers. 



ScaEon. 



Name. 



Color. 



in 

 1 



G 



Flowers. 



Season. 



1 Abricotee, L. H. S., 









26 Charbonnier, 50 cts. 



d. r. 



L 



s 



50 cts. 



y. r. 



1 



R 



L 



m. O 



*27 Clinton' 



w. p. r. 



2 



G 



L 



b. S 



Yellow A dmirable 













*28 Cole's early red 



p. d. r. 



1 



G 



S 



m. Aug. 



2 Acton Scott 



p. y.r. 



2 



G 



L 



m. Aug. 



*29 Columbia 



d. r. rus. 



1 



R 



S, pk. 



m. S 



3 Admirable, Early 



p. y. r. 



1 



G 



L 



b. S 



*30 Cooledge's Favorite 



w. c. 



1 



G 



M 



20th Aug. 



Belle de VUry, erro- 













31 Cooper 



g. y. d. r. 



1 



G 



S 



m. S 



neously 













*32 Crawford's Early 













4 Admirable, Late 



p. y. r. 



1 



G 



M, pk. 



12th S 



Melacaton 



y. d. r. 



1 



G 



s 



e. Aug. 



5 , Scarlet 



p. y. s. 



1 



S 



L,p. 



b. S 



*33 Late Me- 













*6 Astor 



y. g. d. r. 



1 



G 



S,pk. 



e.Aug. 



lacaton 



y. d. r. 



1 



G 



S,pk. 



e.S 



*7 Athens Orange, 50 c. 







R 



L,p. 



S 



34 De Sernach, 50 cts. 



p. y. r. 



1 



R 



L 



m. S 



*8 Baltimore Beauty 



0. r. 



2 



G 



L 



b. Aug. 



35 Double Montague 



p. g. r. 



2 



S 



L,p. 



e. Aug. 



9 Barrington 



p. y. p. r. 



1 



G 



L 



e. Aug. 



36 Double Swalsh 



P- g- 



2 



s 



L'p. 



e. Aug. 



10 Belle Chevreuse, tnjc 



py. r. 



1 



R 



■ S 



b. S 



*37 Druidhill 



p. g. r. 



1 



G 





e.S^ 



Chevreuse kative 













38 Early Anne 



P- D- 



3 



S 



L, p. 



10th Aug. 



11 Belle de Chatenay, 













Green Nutmeg 











o 



new, 50 cts. 







R 



L 



S 



39 Downton 



p. y. r. 



2 



G 



L 



m. Aug. 



12 Belle de Beaucaire 



p. y. r. 



2 



G 



M, d. pk. 



20th S 



40 Newinglon free- 











o 



13 Belle deVitry, Down. 



p. y. r. 



2 



S 



S 



e. S 



stone 



p. y. r. 



1 



R 



S, pk. 



e. Aug. 



Admirable tardive 













41 Rose 



r. 



2 



G 



S, pk. 



e. Aug. 



14 Bellegarde 



p.y.d. r. 



1 



G 



M, pk. 



e. Aug. 



*42 Sweetwater, 













*15 Bergen's Yellow 



y. d. r. 



1 



R 



M, pk. 



e. Aug. 



Prince 



P- g- 



2 



S 



L, p. 



m. Aug. 



16 Blood freestone 



d. r. 



1 



R 



S 



m. O 



Trees budded high, extra 













*17 Bloodgood's late 













size, 50 cts. 













green, (preserves) 



p. g. r. 



2 



G 



S,p. 



e. S 



*43 Early Sweetwater, 













*18 Bonaparte 



g- y- r. 



1 



R 



M, pk. 



b. Aug. 



Down. 



w. 



2 



G 



L 



ra. Aug. 



I'J Bonne Grosse, 50 cts. 



p. g. p. r. 



2 



G 



M, pk. 



10th S 



*44 Tillotson, (Nut- 











*20 Brainard's Yellow 



y. r. 



1 



G 



S 



b. S 



meg 



p. y. r. 



2 



S 



S 



20th Aug. 



*21 Brevoort (Morris) 



p. y. b. r. 



1 



R 



S,pk. 



m. S 



*45 York 



p.y. br.c. 



2 



G 



S,p. 



20th Aug. 



*22 Bollard's Seedling 



y. r. 



1 



R 



M,p. 



b.S 



New- York Rareripe 

 LargeEarlyRareripe 











»23 Cambridge Belle. 























50 cts. 



y.r. 



1 







s 



*46 Early York, Down. 



p. d. r. 



2 



S 



L 



20th Aug. 



*24 Camden 



y.r. 



2 



G 



S, pk. 



b. S 



47 Favier, 50 cts. 



p. y. r. 



2 



S 



S, p. 



b.S 



25 Chancellor, L. H. S. 



p. y. r. 



1 



R 



s 



m. S 



*48 Favorite, Down. 



w. d. r. 



1 



G 



M, pk. 



b.S 



Note. Mr. Downing vxis led into an error as to the Glands of No. 37. 



