TH E MALTA PEACH.
Malta Peach. Miller’s Diet. no. 12. Forsyth’s Treatise,
ed. 5, p . 35. G. Lindi, in Hort. Trans, vol. v. p . 539.
Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 90.
Pêche de Malte. Duham. Traité, vol. ii. p . 15. Noisette
J a r d .f r .
Malte de Normandie. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 91.
Maltheser Pfirsiche. Baumann Taschenb. p. 485.
This variety is said to have the merit, in addition
to its excellence as a wall fruit, of ripening
well on a standard tree, in Normandy,—a climate
so little different from our own, th a t it is to be presumed
the kind will be found to possess the same
property in England. The sort cultivated in Normandy
was a short time since supposed to be a
variety distinct from the Pêche de Malte of Duham
el; but from plants grown in the Garden of
the Horticultural Society last summer, the two are
now judged to be the same.
Upon the authority of Miller, the Italian is said
to be a kind nearly the same as this. In France it
is sometimes called the Belle de Paris.
One of the very best of the melting Peaches,
ripening about the end of August. I t bears carriage
remarkably well, and will keep longer when