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D'avant — and the yellow. He adds, ''I have them 

 all in my garden, with many other sorts." (Herball, 

 1259.) The D'avant we may conclude was of French 

 extraction. Johnson, in his edition of Gerarde's 

 Herball, in 1 633, says There are divers sorts besides 

 the four set forth by our author, and which may be 

 had of my friend Mr. Miller, in Old-street, viz., 

 two sorts of Nutmeg peaches ; the Queen's peach ; 

 the Newington peach ; the Grand Carnation ; the 

 Carnation ; the Black ; the Melocotone ; the White ; 

 the Roman ; the Alberza ; the Island ; and Peach de 

 Troy. These are all good. He hath also of that 

 kind of peach which some call Nucipersicay or Nec- 

 torins, these following kinds : the Eoman Eed (the 

 best of fruits) ; the Bastard Red ; the Little Dainty 

 Green ; the Yellow ; the White ; and the Russet, 

 which is not so good as the rest.'' He says that the 

 D'avant peach was the Persica Proecocia, Great at- 

 tention was now paid to this fruit, for Parkinson, 

 whose Paradisus was published in 1629, enumerates 

 twenty-one varieties, and says there were others with- 

 out names ; and six varieties of nectarines, which, 

 he adds, ^^have been with us not many years." The 

 names of the peaches enumerated by Parkinson are 

 as follows : — 



1. The Great White. 2. The Small White. 3. 

 Carnation. 4. Grand Carnation. 5. Red. 6. Rus- 

 set. 7. Island. 8. Newington. 9. Yellow. 10. 



