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THE ROYAL PEACH. 



Royal. Miller's Diet. no. 7. Forsyth, ed. 7, p. 46. 



La Royale. Duhamel, vol. ii.p. 35, t. 24. Noisette, Manuel, 



p. 480. 

 Bourdine. Duhamel, vol. ii. p. 20, 1. 12. Noisette, Manuel, 



p. 480. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 27. 

 Tton de Venus. Hitt on Fruit Trees, p. 320. Noisette, 



Manuel, p. 480. Jard. Fr. vol. ii. p. 92. Forsyth, ed. 7, 



p. 47. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 162. 

 Late Admirable. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 3. 



This magnificent Peach ripens about the latter 

 end of September, and is by far the most valuable of 

 our late varieties. These, in an English autumn, are 

 too often remarkable for nothing but their want of 

 colour and flavour; but the Royal yields to no 

 summer Peach in the richness of its juice, the deli- 

 cacy of its flesh, or the beauty of its colour. Every 

 writer agrees on this point, and we scarcely remem- 

 ber an autumn which was too unfavourable for 

 bringing it to perfection. 



There is no doubt whatever of the identity of 

 the Royal, the Bourdine, the T&ton de Ve*nus, and 

 the Late Admirable. The Royal and Late Admi- 

 rable are admitted to be the same. Butret, a writer 

 of the highest authority in all that relates to the 

 Peach, declares that the Tton de Ve"nus, the Royal, 

 and the Bourdine, are absolutely the same, and that 



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