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THE ROYAL GEORGE PEACH. 



Royal George of the English Nurseries. Hort. Soc. Fruit 

 Cat. no. 147. 



Red Magdalen "| 



Millett's Mignonne I of the English Nurseries. 



Lockyer's Mignonne . . . J 



Madeleine Rouge a petites fleurs of the French. 



For the following remarks upon this variety we 

 are indebted to Mr. Thompson, whose successful 

 labours in settling the names of fruit in general, 

 and of Peaches and Nectarines in particular, will, 

 we are sure, be, at no distant period, considered as 

 one of the most useful results of the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden. 



This, and the sort usually sold in the Nurseries 

 under the name of Red Magdalen, are the same. 

 The Red Magdalen of Miller (Madeleine de Cour- 

 son of the French) is less common, but is easily dis- 

 tinguished, not so much by its fruit as by its flowers, 

 which are large. 



Ripens in the end of August or beginning of 

 September, and is a proper sort for a Peach-house. 



In the last unfavourable season this sort was 

 found to acquire its flavour better than the Grosse 

 Mignonne : the latter was more affected in conse- 

 quence of the cold and want of sun, than the former. 



The Royal George and Red Magdalen are dif- 

 ferent, say some, because the former is subject to 



