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suture, and a cavity at the base ; it is not very downy ; 

 the colour is pale yellow, and dark crimson on the sunny 

 side, and the flavour is very rich and fine. The flesh is 

 yellow, turning very red round the stone. The stone is 

 oblong, tapering to a point, and it separates from the 

 flesh easily. It ripens the middle of September. The 

 leaves are creuate, with reniform glands, and the flower 

 is small and full-coloured. 



The Bed Magdalen is a first-rate, rather small peach, 

 globular, but a little flattened, deeply cleft on one side, 

 red in colour, juicy, rich and fine in flavour. The flesh 

 is white, becoming a little red at the stone, which is 

 blunt, rather large in proportion to the fruit, and 

 separates readily. The leaves are doubly serrated, with- 

 out glands, and the bloom large and pale-coloured. It 

 is ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 

 No collection should be without the real Eed Magdalen : 

 other names for it are Madeleine de Courson, Madeleine 

 Rouge, and Eouge Paysanne. 



The Royal Charlotte is another excellent sort, with fruit 

 above the middle size, rather narrow at the apex, larger 

 on one side than on the other, pale greenish-white, with 

 a full deep-red cheek, juicy, rich, and fine-flavoured. 

 The flesh is greenish- white, turning to pale red near the 

 stone, which separates easily from the flesh. The leaves 

 are doubly serrated, without glands, and the bloom is of 

 medium size, and deep-coloured. It is ripe early iu 

 September. It is also called Early Purple Kew, and 

 New Eoyal Charlotte. 



Tton de Venus is a large peach, rather deeper than 

 wide, with a wide deep suture from base to apex, a 

 cavity at the base, and at the apex a broad obtuse 

 nipple. It is sweet and excellent in flavour, pale 

 greenish-yellow, with lively red on the sunny side, and 

 the flesh is melting, greenish -yellow in colour, turning 

 red at the stone, from which it separates. The leaves 

 are deeply crenate, with globose glands, and are rather 

 puckered on each side the midrib. The flowers are 

 small, pale rose-coloured, edged with carmine. It is ripe 

 the end of September. 



