PERSIC A, PEACH TREE. 7 



II. PEACH TREE with large flowers and small red summer fruit. 

 Red EARLY PEACH. Troyes EARLY PEACH. (PL III) 



This rarely is a large tree. It produces few branches & lots of fruit. 



The shoots are red & slender. 



The leaves are yellowish green, undulating or wrinkled next to the central vein. 

 They're quite wide, terminate in a sharp point, bend downward, & are not very deeply 

 dentate. 



The flowers are large and pink. 



The fruit is bigger than the white early peach, about thirteen or fourteen lignes 

 long & fifteen or sixteen lignes in diameter. It's round and divided lengthwise on one side 

 by a groove that's not very deep. Only very rarely does it terminate in a protuberance. On 

 both sides of where the protuberance would be there are two small indentations, one of 

 which forms the end of the groove. 



The skin is thin and downy. Its color is very bright vermilion on the side in the 

 sun; it becomes lighter closer to the shaded side where it's a light yellow. 



The white flesh is soft and delicate, slightly tinged with red underneath the skin 

 on the side in the sun; but there are no red fibers next to the pit. 



The juice is sugary and musky. Its flavor usually is less refined than that of the 

 white early peach, but it's more enhanced in certain regions. 



The pit is small, seven lignes long, six lignes wide, five lignes thick, and light 

 gray. Normally it separates freely from the flesh, but sometimes it detaches so little that 

 this peach could be mistaken for a small clingstone. 



Ants & earwigs are very fond of this peach. 



