394 Notice of New or Remarkable Varieties of Fruits, 



and very excellent both in colour and flavour. It has been 

 named the Twyford Peach. The stone from which this 

 peach-tree was obtained was sown in 1817, and the plant in 

 the fourth year after produced its fruit. 



Mr. Stephen Hooker, F. H. S. sent on the 10th of October, 

 1823, specimens of a Peach, the produce of a standard-tree 

 growing in a court-yard adjoining the house of Mr. Ware, 

 in the town of Tonbridge. It is of good size, round, deeply 

 cleft, a rich yellow on the shaded side, and very deep red 

 where exposed. Flesh yellow, red at the stone, hard and 

 adhering firmly ; very rich and highly flavoured. It is a re- 

 markably hardy variety, and will no doubt ripen earlier if 

 grown in a more favorable situation than that in which Mr. 

 Ware's tree is placed. The tree is sixteen or seventeen 

 years old, and has never been transplanted. It began to 

 bear when six or seven years old, and has continued to pro- 

 duce abundantly every year since. It has been named the 

 Tonbridge Peach. 



Nectarines. 



Specimens of the Boston Nectarine were received from 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. the President, on the 18th 

 of July, 1823. The original tree was raised at Boston in the 

 United States, by Mr. Lewis, of that town, from a stone of a 

 Peach. Plants of it were presented to the Society and to the 

 President by Samuel G. Perkins, Esq. of Boston, a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Society. The fruit is of the middle 

 size, nearly heart-shaped. The skin, where shaded, is bright 

 yellow, deepening from slight mottling to intense red as it is 

 more exposed ; its appearance is very beautiful. The flesh 

 is a rich orange colour, having no mixture of red ; it parts 



