[24] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1856, p. 532. A writer, it may be presumed Dr. Lindley, remarks on the perfect series which may be formed between the almond and the peach. Another high authority, Mr. Rivers, who has had such wide experience, strongly suspects (‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1863, p. 27) that peaches, if left to a state of nature, would in the course of time retrograde into thick-fleshed almonds.
[25] ‘Journal of Hort. Soc.,’ vol. ix. p. 168.
[26] Whether this is the same variety as one lately mentioned (‘Gard. Chron.’ 1865, p. 1154) by M. Carrière under the name of persica intermedia, I know not; this variety is said to be intermediate in nearly all its characters between the almond and peach; it produces during successive years very different kinds of fruit.
[27] Quoted in ‘Gard. Chron.’ 1866, p. 800.
[28] Quoted in ‘Journal de La Soc. Imp. d’Horticulture,’ 1855, p. 238.
[29] ‘Teoria della Riproduzione Vegetale,’ 1816, p. 86.
[30] ‘Gardener’s Chronicle,’ 1862, p. 1195.
[31] Mr. Rivers, ‘Gardener’s Chron.,’ 1859, p. 774.
[32] Downing, ‘The Fruits of America,’ 1845, pp. 475, 489, 492, 494, 496. See also F. Michaux, ‘Travels in N. America’ (Eng. translat.), p. 228. For similar cases in France See Godron, ‘De l’Espèce,’ tom. ii. p. 97.
[33] Brickell’s ‘Nat. Hist. of N. Carolina,’ p. 102, and Downing’s ‘Fruit Trees,’ p. 505.