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TI1E PEACH. 
covered with dark red or purplish red in the sun. Flesh yel- 
low, red at the stone, tender, very juicy, of a delicious saccha- 
rine, and slightly subacid flavour. Freestone. Middle to last 
of September. (Cole.) 
Princk’s Excelsior. 
Originated with William 'R. Prince, Flushing, Long Island. 
Fruit very large, round; suture slight, a mere line, ending in a 
flattened depression at top, where there is a slight cavity, and a 
little abortive mamelon. Skin a most splendid pure bright 
orange colour. Flesh golden yellow to the stone, very rich, lus- 
cious, aromatic, apricot, or exquisite orange flavour, sweet and 
rich; separates freely from the stone. Ripens middle of Octo- 
ber: well suited to the South. (W. R. Prince’s MS.) 
Poole’s Large Yellow. Ken. 
Poole’s Late Yellow Freestone. 
A very large peach, of the Melocoton family. It lately ori- 
ginated near Philadelphia, and bears fine crops. 
Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit large, roundish, with a 
suture extending from the base to the top. Skin deep yellow, 
with a dark-red cheek. Flesh yellow, but red at the stone, rich, 
juicy, and of excellent flavour. Ripens last of September. 
Red Cheek Melocoton.* Pom. Man. 
Malagatune. Yellow Malocoton. 
Malacatune. Yellow Malagatune. 
Hogg’s Melocoton. Red Cheek Malocoton. Coxe, 
The Melocoton (or Malagatune, as it is commonly called) is 
almost too well known to need description. Almost every or- 
chard and garden in the country contains it, and hundreds of 
thousands of bushels of the fruit are raised and sent to market 
in this country, every year. It is a beautiful and fine fruit in 
favourable seasons, though in unfavourable ones the acid frequent- 
ly predominates somewhat in its flavour. It is an American 
seedling, and is constantly reproducing itself under new forms, 
most of the varieties in this section having, directly or indirect- 
ly, been raised from it; the finest and most popular at the pre- 
sent time, being Crawford’s Early and Late Melocotons, both 
greatly superior, in every respect, to the original Melocoton. 
Leaves with globose glands. Fruit large, roundish oval, with 
a swollen point at the top. Skin yellow, with a deep-red cheek. 
Melocoton is the Spanish for Peach. 
