The chemical composition of the edible parts of the peach is as follows: Water, 93.7; proteids, .5; fat, .2; carbohydrates, 5.3; ash, 0.3. Fuel value per pound, 115.

We can buy ripe peaches in the markets now through many months in the year. Florida and some of the extreme Southern States send us specimens of peaches in April and May. Georgia sends us good fruit from June through July. In August, September, and October we get our most delicious fruit, and it comes chiefly from Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. New England now raises some good peaches, and Michigan and other Western States supply large markets. The improved distribution by the great railroads and the refrigerator car have brought all parts of the country close together, and these have been the means of giving us peaches and other fruits from California and the other Pacific States during many months of the year. As a rule, near-by peaches are the best in any market. The very early peaches in any locality are not the best.

In buying peaches the following are all good varieties: Early Rivers, Troth, Mountain Rose, St. John, Foster, Crawford's Early and Crawford's Later; Old Mixon, wherever grown, is the very best as to flavor of all peaches, and Moore's Favorite is nearly the same peach. Reeve's Favorite is a grand yellow peach, and so is Susquehanna. El-berta is the great Georgia yellow peach. It is beautiful in appearance, but a little off in flavor. Georgia Bell is a better Georgia peach. Robinson Crusoe is said to have been the finest flavored peach ever grown, but is now extinct. The seed was brought from the island of Juan Fernandez by a son of Dr. Cox and planted in his father's yard at Ninth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ward's Late Free, Chairs' Choice, Fox's Seedling, Smock, Doctor Black, White Heath Cling, and Salway are all good peaches.

I look upon the peach particularly, but all fruits more or less, as very important articles of diet. The acids of the peach are very prone to break up the compounds of the waste substances, particularly of nitrogenous waste, and thus they are enabled to pass off through the kidneys, and an excess of water drunk helps this passing off. These tissue wastes may be largely in the form of uric acid, and thus peaches particularly may help sufferers from rheumatism, gout, and allied disorders, by breaking up these compounds and placing them in a condition to be eliminated from the system, and thus relieving the toxaemia, for toxaemia it really is.