By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esy. 167 



blossoms being so far advanced, as to be subject to some 

 danger from frost. 



As soon as the blossoms had fallen, the fruit was ripened 

 under every advantage of heat and light, that I could com- 

 mand, the glass having been taken off every favourable hour, 

 during the last swelling of the fruit, to admit the solar rays, 

 without its intervention. Three French Mignonne Peaches, 

 only, were suffered to remain on each tree, and six of these 

 ( which attained the greatest state of perfection), afforded 

 me eight plants in the succeeding spring. The plants were 

 two years old when mentioned in my former communication, 

 and I then inferred, from the rapid change observable in 

 the character of their leaves and general growth, that they 

 would bear fruit, as they subsequently did, when three years 

 old. 



Of the new varieties thus obtained three are very early ; 

 but I have not had an opportunity of comparing their time 

 of ripening with that of the earliest old varieties. For the 

 Red Nutmeg Peach did not succeed at all in my garden, anil 

 the blossoms of the Early Anne were wholly destroyed by the 

 unfavourable weather of the spring of 1807 and the follow- 

 ing year. Two of the new varieties, however, ripened ten 

 days before the Royal George Peach, and three weeks before 

 the Red Roman Nectarine, which grew on the same wall, and 

 adjoining the seedling trees ; and therefore I conceive these 

 not to be much later varieties than their male parent, which 

 they strongly resemble in colour, and in the form and cha- 

 racter of their leaves : but their fruit is much larger, many 

 having exceeded seven inches and a half in circumference. 

 The fruit of each of the new varieties is soft and melting, and 



