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Notices of New or Remarkable 



Peaches. 



John Braddick, Esq. sent from his garden at Thames 

 Ditton, specimens of the Flat. Peach of China. This fruit is 

 of truly singular form, and perhaps will be best described as 

 having the appearance of a Peach flattened by pressure at 

 the head and stalk, its upright diameter taken through the 

 centre from eye to stalk, being eleven sixteenths of an inch, 

 consisting wholly of the stone, except the skin ; that of its 

 sides is one inch and one-eighth, its transverse diameter 

 being two inches and a half. The head of the fruit is cracked 

 in such a manner as to look like a broad and rather hollow 

 eye of an irregular five-angled (or lobed) shape surrounded 

 by the appearance of remains of the leaves of a calyx ; the 

 whole surface of this eye is roughly marked with small irre- 

 gular warted lines, like the crown of a Medlar. The colour 

 of the skin of the fruit is pale yellow, mottled or rather speck- 

 led with red on the part exposed to the sun, and covered 

 with a fine down. The flesh is pale yellow, having a beautiful 

 radiated circle of fine red surrounding the stone, and extend- 

 ing far into the fruit. The stone is flatly compressed, small, 

 rough, and irregular. The consistence and flavour of the 

 flesh is that of a good melting Peach, being sweet and juicy, 

 with a little noyau flavour or bitter aroma. This Peach is 

 cultivated in China, representations of it being continually 

 seen on the papers and drawings received from that country, 

 and it is well known at Canton, where it is esteemed as a 

 good fruit. A figure of it is now given, the drawing for 

 which was taken from the specimens which were exhibited 



