IJ'DBILSSSE FSACIHr, 
KIiE wc have one of the oldest and best Peaches 
extant ; a fruit knowTi to most of the old garden- 
ers — S^-itzer, Hitt, and others ; Batty Langley, a 
hundred and twentv- years ago, says the Noblesse, 
or Noblest, is itn excellent fruit, and truly worthy of its name. 
It has, as a matter of course, we may say, several names, and 
has been called !Mellishs Favourite, and Double Montague, 
but is now pretty- generally kno\\Ti as the Noblesse. In George 
Lindley’s Guide to the Orchard, there are a few useful prac- 
tical remarks, which we will take the Uberty of quoting. He 
says, — “ This is one of the veiy best of oiu hardy Peaches, and 
perhaps one'of the most common ; but it is often confounded with 
anotlier, well known, the Vanguard, which is somewhat similar 
