JANUARY. 
7 
pared with some other fruits. Until within these few years the only 
kinds we possessed had been grown from the time of Duhamel and 
Langley ; lately, there have been several good importations from 
America, and a few from the Continent. The Salway is a new late 
Peach, belonging to the yellow-fleshed varieties. This sort will keep 
till November, and is then very rich and melting ; it is a valuable kind. 
The Desse is another late, melting Peach, hanging nearly as long as the 
above, and of a good size. The true Bourdine is also a very desirable 
late Peach, ripening after the Late Admirable. The above three and 
the true Catherine—if it can be got—should be grown in orchard- 
houses, or within glass walls, when fruit fit for table might be had 
through November. Vineuse de Fromentin and Pucelle de Malines 
are two rather new middle season Peaches; and the Early York, and 
Scott’s Early Bed (American varieties), two early Peaches, which 
may be added to collections as valuable. The Walberton Admirable is 
also an excellent late Peach, and not so well known as it deserves. We 
have nothing to report of Nectarines, further than to recommend the 
Hardwick and Downton, two useful hardy kinds, to those who are not 
growing them; also the Murray and Vermash, which are excellent 
varieties. The Oldenberg is a new kind, which we hope fully to prove 
next season. 
Plums. —We incline to the opinion that there is still wanting a 
better-flavoured Plum than the Reine Claude, or Greengage, which has 
retained its superiority for centuries. The three seedling Plums— 
Angelina Burdett, Standard of England, and Woolston Gage, raised 
by Mr. Dowling, of Southampton, and figured in our Volume for 
1853, do not prove to be any improvement on our older varieties. 
The Jefferson is an American Plum, latterly brought into notice; it 
proves to be a good kind, either for pots or out-door culture. 
Apricots. —There are no very new kinds of this fruit. The Kaisha 
is a sort worth growing. The Frogmore Seedling is also rather a new 
sort; the fruit closely resembles the Moor Park, both in appearance 
and quality, but it ripens later than that old favourite vaiiety. 
Figs. —This fruit has undergone but little change for ages. The 
Brown Ischia, Lee’s Perpetual, and White Marseilles still rank among 
the best. 
Cherries. —Nothing new in this fruit worthy of note. 
Of new Pears, their name is “ Legionthe difficulty is to select 
those which are improvements. Climate, season, soil, and mode of 
training affect the size and quality of Pears very much. New kinds 
must go through a long ordeal of trial before their merits can be de¬ 
termined correctly. Of a new seedling, Matthews’ Eliza, we speak 
elsewhere, and can recommend the following as having proved good 
this last season: Poire Peche is an excellent kind, ripening in Septem¬ 
ber ; Brudnell’s Seedling is also an early Pear, ripening about the 
same time as the preceding—it is of rich sugary quality, but soon 
decays when ripe ; the Bergamot Seckel is a hardy variety, possessing 
the qualities of the Seckel with the advantage of larger size ; Sabine 
d’Hiver promises to be one of the best new late Pears ; Season Seed¬ 
ling is a small November Pear, of excellent quality ; Conseiller de la 
