"The great white Peach is white on the outside as the meate is also,
and is a good well rellished fruit.
The small white Peach is all one with the greater, but differeth in
size.
The Carnation Peach is of three sorts, two are round, and the third
long; they are all of a whitish colour, shadowed over with red, and
more red on the side is next the sunne: the lesser round is the more
common, and the later ripe.
The grand Carnation Peach is like the former round Peach, but greater,
and is as late ripe, that is, in the beginning of September.
The red Peach is an exceeding well rellished fruit.
The russet Peach is one of the most ordinary Peaches in the Kingdome,
being of a russet colour on the outside, and but of a reasonable
rellish, farre meaner then many other.
The Island Peach is a faire Peach, and of a very good rellish.
The Newington Peach is a very good Peach, and of an excellent good
rellish, being of a whitish greene colour on the outside, yet halfe
reddish, and is ripe about Bartholmew tide.
The yellow Peach is of a deepe yellow colour; there be hereof divers
sorts, some good and some bad.
The St. James Peach is the same with the Queenes Peach, here belowe set
downe, although some would make them differing.
The Melocotone Peach is a yellow faire Peach, but differing from the
former yellow both in forme and taste, in that this hath a small
crooked end or point for the most part, it is ripe before them, and
better rellished then any of them.
The Peach _du Troas_ is a long and great whitish yellow Peach, red on
the outside, early ripe, and is another kinde of Nutmeg Peach.
The Queenes Peach is a faire great yellowish browne Peach, shadowed as
it were over with deepe red, and is ripe at Bartholmew tide, of a very
pleasant good taste.
The Romane Peach is a very good Peach, and well rellished.
The Durasme or Spanish Peach is of a darke yellowish red colour on the
outside, and white within.
The blacke Peach is a great large Peach, of a very darke browne colour
on the outside, it is of a waterish taste, and late ripe.
The Alberza Peach is late ripe, and of a reasonable good taste.
The Almond Peach, so called, because the kernell of the stone is
sweete, like the Almond, and the fruit also somewhat pointed like the
Almond in the huske; it is early ripe, and like the Newington Peach,
but lesser.
The Man Peach is of two sorts, the one longer then the other, both of
them are good Peaches, but the shorter is the better rellished.
The Cherry Peach is a small Peach, but well tasted.
The Nutmeg Peach is of two sorts, one that will be hard when it is
ripe, and eateth not so pleasantly as the other, which will bee soft
and mellow; they are both small Peaches, having very little or no
resemblance at all to a Nutmeg, except in being a little longer than
round, and are early ripe."
"Many other sorts of Peaches there are, whereunto wee can give no
especial name; and therefore I passe them over in silence."
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