PEACHES 



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PEACHES ,— Peckers.— Amygdalus Persica. 



Each 25 cents, and by the hundred at a liberal discount. 



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



however, has proved them vahjeless for stJindards, 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 conse- 



quence is, that trees budded on the plum besfin to fail after the second year, overgrow 



the plum-stock, and either break off, or perish frjm exhaustion after a short lapse of 



time; and even while living they present but a dwarf, pigmy appearance, when con- 



trasted with those which are inoculated on the natural stock as is practised in Persia. 



These remarks apply equally to the Nectarine, the Apricot, and the Almond, as with 



all these classes of fruit the practice referred to has long been exploded hy intelligent 



cultivators, and we therefore refrain from offering them, deeming such trees an impo- 



sition upon the public. 



Explanation of abbreviations. 



Color. — b. brownish ; c. crimson ; d. dark • p. pale ; pur. purple ; g. greenish ; 



o. orange ; r. red; w. whitish ; y. yellow. 



Flesh.— c. clingstone, or adhering to the flesh; F. freestone or melting, the flesh sepa- 



rating from the stone. 



Size, Quality, Season, and Remarks, are the same as under the head of Cherries. 



Name, 



Colon 



.d 





i 



.Season. 



Remarks, 







fi 





<§ 







1 Admirable, Early 



y- ^'• 



F 



1 



1 



b. S. 



V.V. Flesh sweet, juicy, one 



Admirable 













of the best of peaches. 



Belle de Vitry, of some 















2 Admirable, Late 



p. y. r. 



F 



1 



I 



m. S. 



V. P. One of the very finest va- 



Teton de Venus 













rieties, and ought to be in 



Bourdine,—Royale 













every collection. 



a Admirable, Yellow 



y. r. 



F 



1 



1 



b.O. 



Flesh firm, yellow, a slight ap- 



Admirable jaune 













ricot flavor, highly esteemed 



Abricotee 













in the south of France. 



Orange, of Kenrick 















Apricot peach 















4 Alberge, Yellow 



y. d. r. 



F 



2 



1 



Aug. 



V. P. Handsome and excellent, 



Alb erge jaune 













flesh yellow. 



5 Alberge, Late yellow 



o. 



C 



2 



2 



0. 



Handsome round fruit, mode- 



Pavie Alberge 













rately productive. 



Algiers yellow 















October yellow 















"^6 Astor 



p, y. r. 



F 



1 



2 



e. Aug. 



V. P. Estimable. 



7 Barrington 



p. y, r. 



F 



1 



1 



b. S. 



V. P. Very fine, delicious. 



*8 B iyne's favorite 



y. r. 



F 



1 



1 



Aug. 



V. p. Excellent, very early. 



"9 P.eers' late red Rareripe 



w. r. 



F 



1 



I 



S, 0. 



V. P. Very fine and late. 



10 -ielle de Beaucaire 



p.g.d.r. 



F 



I 



1 



e. Aug, 



V. p. Beautiful and fine. 



Beauty of Beaucaire 















11 Belle deVitry 



p. y. r. 



F 



1 



1 



S. 



V. p. Beautiful, excellent. 



Admirable tardive 















12 Bellegarde 



p.g.d.r. 



F 



1 



1 



e. Aug. 



V. P. Beautiful, excellent. 



*13 Bersen's yellow 



y- 



F 



1 



I 



s. 



V. P, Beautiful, delicious. 



14 Blood cling 



d, pur. 



C 



1 



2 



s.' 



V. P. A very peculiar fruit, es- 



Claret cling 











teemed for pickling. 



Sanguinole 













