Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

by John Parkinson

The yellow Peach is of a deepe yellow colour; there be hereof diuers sorts, some good and some bad.

The St. Iames 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.

1	Malus Armeniaca siue Præcocia. The Apricocke.
2	Malus Persica Melocotonea. The Melocotone Peach.
3	Persica Moschatellina. The Nutmeg Peach.
4	Persica nigra. The blacke Peach.
5	Persica Carnea longa. The long Carnation Peach.
6	Persica Reginea. The Queenes Peach.
7	Amygdalus. The Almond.
8	Persica du Troas. The Peach du Troas.
9	Nucipersica rubra optima. The best Romane red Nectorin.
10	Nucipersica rubra altera. The bastard red Nectorin with a pincking blossome.

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 ouer 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.