
          766

Columbia

[sketch of peach]

1809
Sept. 11.

This magnificent peach was produced 
from a Stone brought from Georgia and
planted in the garden of Mr Barbarroux
of Burlington NJ.  It is a large fruit
of flat form, a clear stone small in 
proportion to the size of the fruit. The
skin is rough resembling flock paper; of a
dull kind of russetty red, full of veins or
blotches of a darker red and is remarkably
thick, the flesh is a bright yellow, rich juicy
melting and fibrous, more nearly resembling
the flesh of a ripe Pine apple than any Peach
I ever saw.  It separates from the Stone better
than any rich Peach we have. It ripens
about the beginning of September

Planted a number of the Stones saved by Mr
Barbarroux & D Smith budded a number of
young trees, they generaly pined and finally
in the second year died. Have now some 
good trees 1816.
        