Antiquity Of The Peach

The peach la ;ui improved variety of the almond. The alaionil has a thin shell around the stone, which splits open and exposes the stone when mature. This outer .skin has simply become ifesliy in the peach, so that is all that gives it its specific character. It seems now clear from investigation in the history of ancient BabyloD that in their gardens, now nearly four thousand years ugo, thepeachwascultiTited then as it is now. It must have been many years before this that the peach was improved froni the altuond, and this fact goos to show the great antiquity of the fruit.