142 Account of a new Variety of the Peach. 



twenty seedling plants, which have sprung from the seeds of 

 one, and the pollen of the other of the above-mentioned 

 varieties, have produced fruit under my care ; three of these 

 have afforded better Peaches than I previously possessed ; 

 and such as, I think, will be found to deserve culture, in 

 those situations at least, where the finer French kinds do 

 not succeed. 



I sent some fruit of one of the above-mentioned varieties, 

 the offspring of a seed of the Noblesse and the pollen of the early 

 Nutmeg Peach, for the inspection of the Fruit Committee of 

 the Society, in the last autumn, which, I had the pleasure to 

 hear, was approved by them. The two other varieties are, 

 however, larger, and, I think, better ; but that, of which I sent 

 the fruit, has borne very abundantly during the last three 

 years (the whole period of its culture in the open air), and its 

 fruit has attained a more uniform degree of perfection, than 

 I have ever witnessed in any other variety The trees have 

 also been perfectly free from every vestige of mildew, in a 

 situation where this disease is very prevalent, and have 

 entirely escaped the attacks of insects ; and as these greatly 

 prefer some varieties to others, I am inclined to hope that 

 this will not prove a favourite with them. It ripens some- 

 what earlier, or rather more uniformly and perfectly, than the 

 Noblesse Peach : for much of the fruit of the latter variety 

 almost always falls off in my garden, in an imperfect state, 

 and without acquiring its proper flavour and state of ma- 

 turity. The new Peach, which has been named the Acton- 

 Scot Peach, forms a perfectly distinct variety, and may be 

 distinguished, at a considerable distance, from every other, 

 with which I am acquainted, by the more than ordinary 

 whiteness of the skin of such parts of the fruit, as have been 



