8 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Even in the best exposures it only ripens at the end of July or at the beginning of August. 



III. Summer PEACH TREE with small flowers and moderately thick fruit; said to be 

 from Troyes. 



DOUBLE de Troyes. Troyes PEACH. Small Mignone. (PL IV.) 



This peach tree is very similar to the preceding one. This is a more vigorous tree. 

 It yields the same amount of fruit & produces more branches. 



The shoots are red on the side toward the sun & green on the shaded side. 



The leaves are sleek or smooth, sometimes slightly wrinkled next to the midrib. 

 They're about four inches long and fourteen lignes wide. They're wider near the petiole 

 than at the other end, which terminates in a very sharp point and are slightly & delicately 

 denticulate on the margins. 



The very small flowers clearly distinguish it from the red early peach tree. 



The fruit is twice as large as that of the red early peach tree. It's not very 

 consistent in shape. Sometimes it's round, with a length equal to its diameter (seventeen 

 lignes). Sometimes it's slightly elongated from the tip to the stalk, and sometimes, 

 conversely, it's about seventeen or eighteen lignes long & about twenty or twenty-one 

 lignes in diameter. It's divided lengthwise by a not very deep groove, which occasionally 

 has a small lip along the edge. The stalk inserts into a deep & quite wide cavity. The tip 

 terminates in a small protuberance or pointed projection. 



The skin is delicate and covered with light down. It's a very beautiful deep red 

 color on the sunlit side. On the shaded side it's yellowish white, slightly flecked with red. 



The flesh is firm, delicate, and white even next to the pit 



