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THE MADELEINE DE COURSON PEACH. 



Madeleine de Courson. Lelieur, Pornone Franfaise, p. 292. 



G. Lindley in Hort. Tram. vol. v. p. 539. Hort. Soc. 



Fruit Cat. no. 84. 

 Madeleine Rouge, or Madeleine de Courson. Duhamel, 



Traitt des Arbres Fruitiers, vol. ii. t. 7. Noisette, Jard. 



Fr.p. 87. tab. 18. Bon Jard. 1828, p. 295. 

 Rouge Paysanne, of the French. 

 Red Magdalen. Miller's Diet. ed. 8. 



An excellent variety, ripening- in the end of 

 August or beginning of September, about the time 

 of the Grosse Mignonne. It is very different from 

 the Red Magdalen Peach of the Nurseries, which is 

 a larger fruit, with more colour, and small flowers. 



The tree is rather subject to mildew. 



According to Mr. Lindley, this is the true Red 

 Magdalen Peach of Miller. It is remarkable for its 

 fine, rich, vinous flavour. 



Leaves dark green, coarsely and doubly ser- 

 rated, glandless. 



Flowers large, pale blush. 



Fruit small, globular, flattened, deeply cleft on 

 one side. Colour pale yellow, with a blush of 

 clear pink where exposed. Flesh quite white, not 



