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sweet tasted. The flesh is a fine golden yellow, the stone is 

 free and rather small ; ripe about the middle of August, and 

 much esteemed by most people. It is worthy of cultivation 

 in every good collection. 



11. Brevoort's Seedling Pound Peach, was raised by Mr. 

 Breyoort from a seed of the Morrisania Pound Peach, and is 

 much like it, but ripens a fortnight or three weeks earlier ; 

 nearly the same shape and flavour as the Morrisania Pound 

 Peach, before described. 



12. Early Sweetwater Peach. This is the best early Peach 

 we have ; it is ripe here the latter end of July and beginning 

 of August, about a week after the White Nutmeg, or, as it is 

 here called, the Anne Peach. It was raised from a stone of the 

 White Nutmeg ; the flavour, however, is much finer ; in size 

 it is nearly twice as large, the flesh is very juicy and sweet. 



13. Dr. Grahams White Freestone Peach. A fine Peach, 

 perfectly white ; it is of a very large size, and weighs usually 

 about eight ounces; the stone small, the juice rich and 

 sweet ; it is ripe about the middle of September. 



14. Serrated Peach, Emperor of Russia Peach, or Unique 

 Peach. This is a very singular Peach : the leaves are very 

 deeply and doubly serrated, the fruit ripens early, soon after 

 the Early Sweetwater Peach ; the fruit is deeply cleft, one 

 half of it projecting considerably beyond the other ; the stone 

 is free and rather large ; the flavour of the flesh is very 

 good. The sort originated in the woods in New Jersey, not 

 far from this place, near twenty years ago. It is singular that 

 all the stones of this fruit produce plants with jagged leaves; 

 but I have not seen one of its offspring so good as the original. 



