Persica vulgaris.

Varieties

D. Landreth and Fulton offer the following among others as desirable varieties. The vicinity of Philadelphia is famous for the extent of its Peach orchards, and the abundance and excellence of the fruit. What is there considered worthy of culture may be safely relied upon.

Explanation Of Abbreviations

Colour - y yellow; r red; w white. Size - l large; M medium.

Those marked * are clingstones.

The culture of the Peach is in this country so simple, and generally understood, that it would seem scarcely necessary to occupy space with directions on that subject.

The following remarks are from a paper by Dr. Thompson of Wilmington, Delaware, published in the Farmer's Cabinet of Philadelphia, and may excite surprise in some quarters by its details of the extent to which the Peach trade has arrived.

"To Mr. Isaac Reeves, a native of New Jersey, is the whole credit due of first introducing on a large scale the culture of the inoculated peach tree into Delaware. The late Mr. Jacob Ridgway, of Philadelphia, owning a farm near Delaware City, on the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, was induced by Mr. Reeves to become his partner, and upon this property, in the spring of 1S32, they set out the first twenty acres of inoculated peach trees ever planted in this State, with the view of supplying the Philadelphia market. They rapidly extended their plantation to about one hundred and twenty acres, were eminently successful, and one year - the very best season they ever had - their gross income from the sales of fruit was some sixteen thousand dollars. Peaches then commanded from one dollar twenty-five cents to three dollars per basket, containing about three pecks. In the spring of 1S36, the late Mr. Manuel Eyre and myself followed suit upon our ' Union Farm,' midway between Wilmington and Newcastle on the Delaware river, to about the extent of one hundred and forty acres.

In a year or two afterwards, Mr. Philip Reybold & Sons went into the business - then a host of others, until now, from twenty-five hundred to three thousand acres of land, in Newcastle county, are planted with, and successfully cultivated in peaches, making Delaware, though the smallest of the States, the largest producer of this fruit. The result has been a proportionate diminution of price, the average, per basket, one season with another, not exceeding from thirty to sixty cents. In this way Delaware has become the principal supplier of the Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,and North River markets, and many of our fine peaches now reach even Boston. The whole annual income from this branch of business to the farmers of this county may be estimated from one to two hundred thousand dollars. For so handsome an additional product, the agriculturists of Delaware, as well as the consumers of peaches in our vicinity, owe a debt of gratitude to the originator of the culture, whom as one, I should gladly unite in presenting with some valued and lasting memento in recognition of his merit for giving a new staple to a State; for who is a greater benefactor to mankind and the age he lives in, than he who brings into operation a new branch of business, giving by his enterprise and perseverance an impetus to agriculture; causing the earth to give forth its increase, and so multiplies its fruits as to bring them within the reach and enjoyment of all ? The great improvement made in peach-es within the last few years in New Jersey and Delaware, consists in propagating none but the finest kinds, by budding and grafting, so as to have the fruit as early and as late as our latitude will admit; the earliest ripening with us from the first week in August, such as Troth's Early, Early York and Early Ann, and ending in the latter part of October with Ward's Late Free, the Heath, Algiers' Winter, etc.