Peach

Peach (Prunus Persica)

Although neither so free-growing nor so hardy as the Almond, the Peach in various forms is beautiful, and in positions sheltered from the north and east ought to be planted freely. There are now varieties at the service of the planter, chiefly single and double forms, with white or red flowers. One of the best of these is camelliaflora, with large single or double red flowers.

There is also one with purple foliage known as foliis rubris, this color extending also to the fruit. The double Peaches are often very handsome in warm valley soils. Best from seeds or layers, the grafting on the plum leading to death or disease.

Related Flowers

Bird Cherry

Bird Cherry (Prunus Padus) - This beautiful tree, a native of Britian as well as of North and Central Europe and Asia, is often 40 feet high, the flowers being borne in drooping racemes, in the commonest form being 4 inches to 6 inches long. There are varieties, however, finer both in the flowers and racemes. The common Bird Cherry is a tree rather for the park and woodland than the garden proper, but the Manchurian and double-flowered varieties fully deserve a place among flowering trees.

Rose-bud Cherry

Rose-bud Cherry (Prunus Pendula) - A beautiful Japanese Cherry and one of the earliest to come into flower, commencing usually towards the end of March. Its pendent growth has led to its being commonly worked on stocks 5 to 6 feet high, but it comes true from seed. The leaves are much like those of the common Cherry, the flowers of a lovely shade of soft rose and borne in profusion. In the United States, where the summers are much hotter, it thrives better than in England, and it should, if possible, be planted in a sunny spot sheltered from the north and east Syn., Cerasus pendula.

Mountain Cherry

Mountain Cherry (Prunus Prostrata) - A rare species, and one of the most lovely of the dwarf Cherries, a native of the mountains of the Levant, and although not strictly prostrate (at least in cultivation), is a low spreading bush, the long, slender branches arching outwards and downwards to the ground. The flowers, borne on very short stalks, are of a beautiful lively shade of rose, are half-an-inch to three-quarters of an inch across, and so plentiful as to almost hide the branches.