By Mr. John Robertson. 385 

 Peaches. The Second Division (the Classes of Mr. Robert- 

 son) is by him founded on the absence or presence of glands 

 on the leaves : with the French writers, it is formed by that 

 quality of the flesh of the fruit which allows it to part readily 

 from, or to adhere to, the stone ; the fruits having the latter 

 quality, being generally termed by the French, Pavies. The 

 Third Division (the Divisions of Mr. Robertson) is by all 

 three writers made according to the size of the flower ; the 

 French, however, making three partitions of the size, into 

 large, middle-sized, and small flowers, whilst Mr. Robertson 

 has only large and small flowers. The Fourth, and last 

 Division (the Subdivisions of Mr. Robertson) is by him 

 founded on the disposition in the flesh of the fruit to part 

 from or adhere to the stone ; whilst, with the two French 

 authors, it is formed on the presence or absence of glands on 

 the leaves, these being by them both subdivided into globose 

 and reniform shaped glands. The Count Lelieur adds a 

 still further head of distinction, founded on the serrature of 

 the leaves, but an inspection of his table will shew this to be 

 entirely unnecessary; since, agreeably to the observation 

 made by Mr. Robertson, the gland-bearing leaves have all 

 small serratures, and the glandless leaves large serratures. 



In order to elucidate the subject still farther, an arrange- 

 ment has been made of all the Peaches introduced into the 

 Count Lelieur' s table, in a Synoptical table, on the plan 

 of Mr. Robertson, which is annexed ; this has been readily 

 done by means of the characters given by the Count Le- 

 lieur, without reference to the trees themselves. The only 

 difficulty in the way of making this transfer perfect, arose 

 from the triple division of the size of the flower, by the 



