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to the Society. The plant which bore the fruit was sent to 

 Mr. Braddick from Mr. Kirke's nursery, under the name 

 of the Java Peach, Mr. Kirke received it through a friend 

 from Java, to which country it had no doubt been carried 

 from China. It is believed that this is the first instance of its 

 having ripened in Great Britain. The Society is in posses- 

 sion of plants of it, imported from China. 



Mrs. Thoyts of Sulhamstead House, near Reading, sent 

 specimens of a Seedling Peach, raised by her gardener. It 

 is a large fruit, resembling the variety called Smith's New- 

 ington. It is globular, depressed on the head, slightly cleft, 

 with a corresponding depression on the opposite side. Skin 

 a clear pale yellow where shaded, with a blush of red some- 

 what mottled on the exposed side, covered with a fine short 

 down. Flesh pale yellow without any stain of red, perfectly 

 melting, juice abundant, sweet, with a rich vinous flavour; 

 stone small, oval, rather blunt, parting freely, with only a few 

 fibres adhering. This very fine new variety has been named 

 the Sulhamstead Peach. 



Mr. Joseph Kirke exhibited specimens of the Rosmme 

 Peach, the produce of a standard tree in a south border, in 

 his garden at Brompton. This, as has been observed by 

 Duhamel, is a variety of the Yellow Alberge, but has not 

 been sufficiently distinguished from it by the British gar- 

 dener ; it ripens a little later in the season, and is superior to 

 the Alberge in quality. It is noticed here from the circum- 

 stance of its bearing in our climate as a standard. The fruit, 

 it is true, in such circumstances, is small, but it ripens well, 

 and acquires a fine colour and a rich high flavour. If a 

 melting Peach with yellow flesh, of the old kinds at present 



