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Griffith's Mignonne. See Royal George. 

 Grimwood's Royal Charlotte. See Royal Charlotte. 

 Grimwood's Royal George. See Grosse Mignonne. 

 Grosse Jaune. See Yellow Admirable. 

 Grosse Malecoton. See Pavie de Pompone. 



GROSSE MIGNONNE ( Avant ; Early Purple Avant ; Early Vine- 

 yard; Y'W/r'.s- Early ; French Mignonne ; Grimwood's Royal George; 

 JoAlUOfl'l Earl;/ Purple Avant ; Neal's Early Purple ; Padley's Enrl;/ 

 Purple; RiHialils'x (rulawli-; Jlni/nl Kenxingtnn ; llnyal Sovereign; 

 Smooth-leaved Royal George ; Superb Royal ; Grosse Mignonne Veloutee ; 

 Grow Mignonne Ordinaire; Hdtive de Ferrieres ; Mignonne Veloutee}. 

 Fruit, large, roundish, somewhat flattened, and furrowed with a 

 deep suture at the top, which seems to divide it in two lobes. Skin, 

 pale greenish yellow mottled with red, and deep brownish red next the 

 sun, covered with fine soft down. Flesh, pale yellow, red under the 

 skin on the side next the sun and at the stone, rich and delicate, vinous, 

 and highly flavoured. Stone, small, very rough. Flowers, large. 

 Leaves, with round glands. 



Ripe in the end of August and beginning of September. 



This is one of the very best mid-season peaches. The tree, how- 

 ever, is delicate, and very liable to mildew ; but there are some seed- 

 lings from it which preserve all the characters of the fruit with a hardier 

 constitution of the tree. Mr. R. D. Blackmore says that in his 

 garden at Teddington it never takes mildew, and if he grew only one 

 kind of peach this would be the one. 



The numerous synonyms which this variety possesses are an evidence of the 

 favour in which it has been held. Its origin is unknown, bufTt has been in culti- 

 vation for upwards of two centuries, being mentioned by Merlet and all subsequent 

 authors. From the fact of its reproducing itself from seed, nurserymen, with good 

 faith, have introduced it from time to time as a new variety. Grimwood, of the 

 Kensington Nursery, sent it out in George the Third's reign as Grimwood's Royal 

 George. The late Mr. Lee of Hammersmith did so under the two names of 

 Early Vineyard and Smooth- leaved Royal George. Neal (or Neil), a nurseryman, 

 sold two plants of it to Mr. Padley, the king's gardener at Hampton Court, for 

 five guineas, under the name of Neal's Early Purple, and hence Padley's name also 

 appears among the synonyms. Shatter, of Chelsea, who raised the White Moss 

 Pose, also sent it out under the name of Superb Royal, and Ronalds, of Brentford, 

 sold it as Ronalds's Galande. It was called Royal Kensington by Forsyth, the 

 royal gardener, who, when he went to Kensington in 1784, found it as a new peach 

 sent with some others from France to the Queen. Daniel Grimwood was a nursery- 

 man at Kensington, and died there August 6th, 1796, and was succeeded by 

 William Malcolm. The nursery was on the south side of the high road, exactly 

 opposite Kensington Palace Gardens. It was fenced all round with an old holly 

 hedge, which in 1840 had become very insecure. 



Grosse Mignonne Hative. See Early Grosse Mignonne. 



Grosse Mignonne Ordinaire. See Grosse Mignonne. 



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