This Plum, though rather coarse, and ranking not more than good as to quality, is yet worthy of much more general culture than it has received, on account of its great size, beautiful appearance, and earliness. We certainly regard it as one of the most magnificent of all Plums - as large as a good-sized Peach, and of a rich brownish-red, covered with a thin azure bloom. It bears large crops with us. The tree is stout, a good grower, and quite hardy. It ripens here from the 1st to the 15th of August* - only a few days behind the Jaune Hative. Chas. H. Tomlinson, Esq., of Schnectady, who brought this fruit before the late Mr. Downing, some nine years ago, says that at Schenectady the ends of the young shoots sometimes get killed, as also the fruit-buds in severe winters. It has also proved tender in Maine. We copy below, the account and description given at that time in the Horticulturist:

* Noisette describes it as ripening in France from the 10th to the 20th of July.

"There is a French Plum of large size and very beautiful appearance, described by Noisette, Poiteau, and other French pomologists, as the Prune Piche, or Peach Plum. It is most probably very little known out of France, since it is not recognized or described as a distinct variety, by any English or American pomologist down to the present time.

" Thompson, in the last edition of the London Horticultural Society's Catalogue, as well as in the Pomological Magazine, gives the Prune Piche as synonymous with the Nectarine. Lindley follows the latter work in his Guide to the Orchard. In our work on Fruits, never having been able to find the true Peach Plum, we also placed it as a synonym of the Nectarine. But, at the same time, we added the following paragraph:

" 'Mr. Rivers has lately sent to this country, trees of the Peach Plum, which, he says, is the Prune Piche of Brittany, superior to and quite distinct from the Nectarine.'

"Singularly enough accident made us acquainted with the fact that, in the city of Schenectady in this State, the genuine Peach Plum has been considerably cultivated fur more than twenty years, in the greatest perfection. Mr. Charles H. Tomilnson of that place, desirous of clearing up some doubts in relation to the Plum known as Duane's Purple, brought us at the close of July, some very remarkable looking Plums, strikingly different from any other variety. Having excellent colored drawings and descriptions of the Prune Peche, both in the Jardin Fruitier of Noisette, and the Pomologie Francaise of Poiteau, we recognized the specimens immediately as the genuine old Peach Plum of France, which is scarcely at all known to cultivators, from its having been confounded with the Nectarine Plum.

"This true Peach Plum is a superb fruit It could never have been received correctly in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, for a single glance at the external appearance of the fruit is sufficient to distinguish it from all other Plums. Its color, as is correctly shown in the colored plates of the two French authors just mentioned, is a dark salmon-red, while that of the Nectarine Plum, as every one knows, is a distinctly purplish-red. Again, the Peach Plum, ripens here ten days before the Washington, making it the earliest of Plums. (Noisette says, in France it ripens from the 10th to the 20th of July.) The Nectarine Plum does not ripen here till the middle or last of August - a week or ten days after the Washington, and three weeks later than the Peach Plum.

"Considering its large size, its early maturity, and agreeable flavor, we think the Peach Plum will be a valuable acquisition to our fruits. Mr. Tomlinson showed us some specimens when we were at Schenectady on the first of August, one of which measured six inches and a half in circumference. We have prepared an outline of this variety, and made the following description with the fruit before us.