APRIL. 97 
THE SALWAY PEACH. 
(PLATE 163). 
Or this new variety, we this month furnish a coloured 
illustration. It is the most valuable and latest of all Peaches. 
The fruit from which our artist made the drawing was from 
the original tree, which is growing under very unfavourable 
circumstances, consequently the fruit is below its average size. 
Very fine examples of it have been produced at Frogmore, and 
last season we saw a fruit grown there, on a tree worked on 
the Plum stock, that measured 13 inches in circumference, 
and weighed 11 ounces. ‘This shews that under favourable 
circumstances and good management it will rank among the 
largest of Peaches. 
The fruit, as will be seen, is round, indented at the apex, and 
has a deep channel running to the stalk; skin deep orange, 
tinged and mottled with red on the sunny side; flesh orange, 
red near the stone, soft, melting, and rich, with a sweet 
pleasant flavour, and highly perfumed ; it usually ripens about 
the end of October or early in November. To Colonel Salway 
belongs the merit of having introduced this valuable variety. In 
1844 he brought stones of the St. Giovanni Peach from 
Florence. They were sown the same season at his seat, 
Egham Park, Surrey, and first produced fruit in 1852. The 
Salway is a perfectly hardy kind, and every fruit grower will do 
well to add it to his collection. 
It is always désirable to extend the season of any variety of 
fruit to the latest possible period, and generally speaking late 
kinds of Peaches are more useful than those ripening at an 
earlier season, more especially if good quality and lateness are 
combined. We have many varieties of late Pears, Plums, 
Apples, and Cherries, but the majority of Peaches are either 
early or of the middle season; very few date are. really worthy 
a place in any garden. The two best we have to notice are 
native seedlings, affording, if such was wanted, another proof 
of the desirability of raising seedling fruit, with the view of 
procuring improved varieties of a hardy and healthy class. 
The principal object we have in view now 1s merely to motice 
a few of the dest late sorts. 
The Walberton Admirable is a most excellent and splendid fruit, 
ripening after the Barrington and Chancellor, and about a week before 
the Late Admirable. It closely resembles the Noblesse in appearance, 
as well as in texture and quality of the fruit, but it is three weeks later 
than that fine old variety, a quality which renders it still more valu- 
able. ‘The fruit is large, of a creamy yellow, marked and tinged with 
red on the exposed side; the flesh is tender, juicy, and of delicious 
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