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LIII. An Account of three new Peaches. In a Letter to 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. fyc. Vice President. Bij 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. fyc. President. 



Read April 2, 1816. 



My dear Sir, 



Jn the absence of Mr. Salisbury, I have addressed to you 

 a few Peaches of three new varieties, which I have obtained 

 from seeds ; and I will beg the favour of you to submit their 

 merits to the decision of as many members of the Fruit 

 Committee of the Horticultural Society, as you can, with 

 convenience, get to attend. All are early, but No. 1 and 4 

 are more early, than No. 2. 



No. 1, is the offspring of an early Peach, which I received 

 under the name of the large French Mignonne, and the 

 pollen of the early red Nutmeg Peach. The female parent, 

 however, was not the Grosse Mignonne of Du Hamel ; but 

 a Peach very closely resembling the variety called, in the 

 nurseries near London, Neil's Early Purple. The new variety 

 has grown very freely, in my garden, and borne well, and 

 it ripens, in ordinary seasons, some days before the Noblesse 

 Peach ; but in the present season, which has been peculiarly 

 warm and favourable, that, and the Noblesse, have ripened 

 at the same time. The sample sent, grew upon a very 

 young tree, which bore a very heavy crop : and it will pro- 

 bably prove, on that account, somewhat less saccharine 

 than if it were the produce of an older tree of the same 

 variety : in every other respect, the sample sent is good. 

 • Since called the Early Downton Peach. 



