216 An Account of three new Peaches. 



cold and unfavourable situations, where the more delicate 

 French varieties would fail. Good new varieties of the 

 Peach are, I believe, very readily obtainable from seeds: 

 for I have never raised a single variety which was not 

 tolerably good ; and my experiments have been confined to 

 a few early varieties, which I found to be capable of ripen- 

 ing tolerably well, in the open air, in this situation. The first 

 produce of the original tree, No. 4, was so harsh and 

 austere, that I instantly threw it away ; and the preserva- 

 tion of the variety was solely owing to a bud, which I had 

 inserted in an older tree, at the time when I first noticed 

 the approaching early maturity of the new variety ; I gave 

 it the name of the Spring Grove Peach, as soon as I observed 

 its merits. 



I am, my dear Sir, 



sincerely your's, 



Thomas Andrew Knight. 



Downton, 

 August 21, 1815. 



