3i6 A TREATISE OF 



white colour, except when fully expofed to 

 the fun, and then that fide is fometimes 

 faintly markt with red. The pulp is very 

 melting, and parts from the ftone, next 

 w hich it is fometimes a little red, and al- 

 w^ays full of a rich juice. It generally be- 

 gins to ripen about the middle or latter end 

 of Auguft. 



The Montaban is a middle fized peach 

 almofl: round, with a cleft on one fide, and 

 not pointed : 'tis of a bright red colour, 

 except a little next the wall which is green ; 

 the flefli is melting and well tafted, and is 

 fometimes red at the ftone, from which it 

 parts freely ; it begins to ripen at the latter 

 end of Auguft, and will hold in eating 

 near a month : the tree is a good bearer, 

 and makes plenty of healthy branches. 



The minion is a tender kind of tree, 

 being very fubjeft to the fmother-flie, un- 

 lefs great care is taken ; but when the tree 

 is in good order, the fruit is large, and of 

 a bright colour fo far as it is expofed to the 

 fun 'y the pulp is full of a rich juice, and is 

 very red round the ftone, which is not large 

 for the fize of the fruit : it ripens in the 



latter 



