PEACHES. 191 



LATE PURPLE. PR. CAT. 

 Pourpree tardive. Duh. Roz. 



This fine freestone peach has flowers of medium size, of a 

 rose colour, and ten to eleven lines in breadth ; the fruit is one 

 of the most beautiful of its class, and often measures thirty-one 

 to thirty-two lines in its greatest diameter, by twenty-seven to 

 twenty-eight in height ; the longitudinal groove which divides 

 it on one of its sides, is not very distinct, and it extends beyond 

 the summit, which is terminated by a small nipple ; the skin, 

 which is covered with fine down, and separates easily from the 

 flesh, is whitish on the shaded side, and reddish next the sun, 

 where the red colour is frequently distributed in lines or stripes ; 

 the flesh is white, except around the stone, where it becomes 

 somewhat red it is melting, very succulent, abounding in 

 juice of a sweet, perfumed, vinous, and excellent flavour ; the 

 stone, which separates pretty readily from the flesh, is subject 

 to split it measures fifteen to sixteen lines in length, and 

 eleven to twelve in breadth, and is most swollen towards the 

 point, and narrowest at the base. This peach is considered 

 an excellent fruit, and ripens at the end of September or be- 

 ginning of October. In my importations of fruit made from 

 England, some years since, they sent me from one of the first 

 establishments in that country for this variety, a late purple 

 peach with a smooth skin, considerably resembling a nectarine, 

 which beyond doubt must be one of the choice French Violet 

 peaches, and I expect to be able soon to identify it with its 

 proper title. 



MALTA. PH. CAT. POM. MAG. MIL. FOR. 



LOND. HORT. SOC. CAT. No. 90. 



Peche de MaUe. Duh. Jard. Fruit. 



Belle de Paris, of the French. 



Malte de Normandie. Lond. Hort. Soc. cat. No. 91. 



Maltheser Pfirsiche. Baum. Taschenb. 



The following description of this fine freestone peach I ex- 

 tract from the Pomological Magazine. 



