On some new Varieties of the Peach. 



very readily quits the stone ; and I thought the flavour of 

 one of them quite equal to that of any Peach which my 

 garden produced. In their leaves and fruit, each tree forms 

 a perfectly distinct variety, and even where the same stone 

 contained two plants, they bear very little resemblance to 

 each other. 



In the present spring, I exposed all the seedling plants 

 without any covering, to ascertain the comparative degrees 

 of hardiness of their blossoms ; and in this respect I found 

 them to differ very widely. The blossoms of two of the va- 

 rieties appear, however, to be very hardy, and promise an 

 abundant crop of fruit, though the season has been more 

 than usually unfavourable ; and I have had the pleasure to 

 observe, that the best Peach is one of the most hardy. 



The success therefore of the first, and of the only experi- 

 ment of which I have fully seen the result, on this species of 

 fruit, has fully answered, and indeed exceeded my hopes , 

 and I entertain little doubt that the Peach tree might, in 

 successive generations, be so far hardened and naturalized 

 to the climate of England and Ireland, as to succeed well as 

 a standard in favourable situations. It is my wish to try the 

 effects of propagating successive generations alternately from 

 the open wall, and from the hot-house, and of introducing 

 the pollen from the open wall to the blossoms of the hot- 

 house, with the hope of obtaining varieties which will be at 

 once hardy and early. The Peach does not, like many other 

 species of fruit, much exercise the patience of the gardener, 

 who raises it from the seed ; for it may always be made to 

 bear when three years old, and there is something in its habits 

 which induces me to believe that it might be made to bear 



