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Rh the copious juice is of an agreeable taste and flavour—This fruit also attains to perfection in August.

5. The Large Early Apricot (Grand Abricot hatif; Abricot commun), a large and beautiful fruit, of a dark-yellow shade, and sometimes red; it has a good juicy pulp, but no peculiar flavour; and easily turns mealy, after having arrived at the point of maturity. It becomes ripe soon after the small early apricot.

6. The Large Sugar Apricot resembles in size and shape the preceding variety; but, when full grown, has a coat somewhat fallow; its pulp is of a golden hue, and remarkably saccharine; it ripens after the early sort last mentioned.

7. The Early Montague Peach is of a large and handsome size; of a fine red tint on the side exposed to the sun, and a yellowish cast in other parts; being juicy, sweet, and without any red dye about the kernel, from which it is not readily separated: it ripens about the letter end of August.

8. The Bellegarde is likewise a very beautiful, large, and excellent peach, with a strong tint of red on a yellow ground, and of a deep-red shade on the south side. Its pulp, though rather firm, yields a sweet juice of an agreeable taste; the fruit is in season together with the preceding kind.

9, and 10. The Maltese Peach is highly esteemed by those who prefer a sweet to a vinous taste: it is of a middling size, a spherical form, led-streaked on the south side, and, in other directions yellow; the pulp is white, exceedingly delicate; melts without appearing watery; contains an uncommon proportion of saccharine matter; and has an exquisite flavour. The stone firmly adheres to the flesh, and presents a small point in one of its extremities; the fruit arrives at maturity toward the end of September.

11. The Red Magdalen is also a fine, inviting peach; having a white mellow pulp, which is red around the kernel; affords a savoury, sweet juice; and ripens about the middle of September.

12. The Charlestown, or Ananas Peach, is a new sort, reared in America, from the kernel. Although its colour is inferior to that of most other peaches, being of an uniformly pale yellow, without any red tint, yet its firm and juicy pulp possesses the delicious flavour of the pine-apple: it ripens in the beginning of October.

13. The Genoese Peach maintains the first rank; being of a considerable size, and marbled of a bright-red tint on the south side; its dark-yellow pulp is incomparably delicate, resembles in flavour that of the melon; and is of a rose-red hue around the stone: this fruit attains to perfection about Michaelmas, or somewhat later.

14. The White Magdalen, a tolerably large, round peach, of a yellowish-white, but of a lively red on the south side: its pulp is mellow, and very grateful to the palate; of a rose-red tint about the stone, and yielding a sweet juice: it is eatable about the middle of September.

II. Plantation along the South-side of the Orchard, with Peaches of the first rank, but which attain to maturity at a later period.

1, and 2. The Maltese Peach.—See above, No. 9.

3. The Red Magdalen.—See No. 11.