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St. James. 11. Melocotone. 12. Peacli du Troas. 



13. Queen's. 14. Roman. 15. Durasme or Span- 

 ish. 16. Black. 17. Alberza. 18. Almond Peach. 

 19. Man Peach. 20. Cherry Peach. 21. Nutmeg 

 Peach. 



Mr. Ray, sixty years after Parkinson, gives a Hst 

 of eighteen different sorts of peaches then in most 

 esteem, the names of which are as follow : — 



1. The White Nutmeg. 2. The Red Nutmeg. 

 3. The Troy Peach, so called from Troyes in Cham- 

 pagne. 4. The Isabella. 5. The Savoy. 6. The 

 Bourdeux. 7. The Early Newington. 8, The Old 

 Newington. 9. Violet Muscate. 10. Persicum. 

 11. Modanese. 12. Morello. 13. Rumbulliam. 



14. Bellice. 15. Scarlet. 16. Royal. 17. Ricket. 

 18. Bloody Monsieur. {Hist. Plantarumii. 1516.) 



The number of the varieties continued to increase 

 as years passed on ; for, in the " Complete Gardener" 

 of London and Wise, published in 1699, 33 are enu- 

 merated; in 1707, Mortimer names 47; Switzer, in 

 his Practical Fruit Gardener," in 1724, only enu- 

 merates the following, according to the order in which 

 they ripen their fruit, but they are evidently a select 

 list :— 



RIPE IN AUGUST. 



The White Nutmeg. 



— Red Nutmeg, or Forward Troy Peach. 



— Passe Violet, or Double Troy Peach. 



