. Gardening for the South;. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. THE PEACH. 311 to the color of the flesh—viz.: those with light-colored and those with deep-yellow flesh. These classes are again subdivided into three sections. At the base of the leaf, of some varieties, will be found small glands which are either round and regular, or oblong and irregular, or kidney-shaped; while others have no glands, but are more deeply cut or serrated like the teeth of a SERRATSD XSD GlANDLESS. GLOBOSE GLANDS. BENIFORM GLANDS Hence the three sections, viz.: 1., Leaves serrated with- out glands, a.; 2.
. Gardening for the South;. Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. THE PEACH. 311 to the color of the flesh—viz.: those with light-colored and those with deep-yellow flesh. These classes are again subdivided into three sections. At the base of the leaf, of some varieties, will be found small glands which are either round and regular, or oblong and irregular, or kidney-shaped; while others have no glands, but are more deeply cut or serrated like the teeth of a SERRATSD XSD GlANDLESS. GLOBOSE GLANDS. BENIFORM GLANDS Hence the three sections, viz.: 1., Leaves serrated with- out glands, a.; 2. Leaves with small, round, or globose glands, b,; 3. Leaves with large irregular reniform glands, c. From the blossom, another characteristic is derive<l, giving us two subsections. The first embracing large flowers, red in the centre, and pale at the margin. The second, small flowers, tinged with dark at the margin. Most of the native peaches, in this vicinity, belong to the first class; but the great mass of the finest fruits have small flowers. Varieties,—The following varieties have been tried in in this vicinity, and are found among the most desirable. They are classed pretty much in the order of ripening.* A full list of good clingstones in succession, from the • In 1862, two or three weeks earlier than the next year; so the times of ripening, and even the order cannot be fully relied Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original White, William N. , 1819-1867. New York, C. M. Saxton and company; Athens, Ga. , W. N. White
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