10 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



V. PEACH TREE with small flowers and moderately thick fruit with light yellow flesh 

 Yellow CLINGSTONE PEACH. Yellow PEACH. (PL V.) 



This peach tree is fairly vigorous. It sets fruit extremely well. 



The shoots are dark red on the side in the sun & tend more to yellow on the side 

 against the wall. 



The leaves are green bordering on feuille morte. They turn red in autumn. 



The flowers are small and dark red. Once in a while this peach tree has large 

 flowers. 



The fruit is a bit larger than the small Mignonne. Occasionally its length and 

 diameter are equal. At other times it's about twenty lignes long by about twenty-three 

 lignes in diameter. Most often it's oblong, slightly flatter at one end, especially at the end 

 where the stalk inserts into the bottom of a large cavity. It's divided lengthwise by a very 

 noticeable groove bordered by two quite prominent lips. 



It has a thin skin that separates with difficulty from the fruit when it's not 

 completely ripe. The skin is deep red where the sun has struck it but yellow beneath the 

 leaves & on the side against the espalier. Il has a lot of fawn-colored down. 



The flesh is bright yellow but a very deep red near the pit. It's a lighter red 

 underneath the skin. It's delicate & very soft when the fruit is fully ripe, but it's mealy in 

 dry ground, on trees that are declining, & when the fruit has been picked while still green 

 and has ripened only in a fruit loft. 



The juice is sugary & wine-like when the soil isn't too moist & the fruit has 

 completely ripened on the tree. 



The pit is small, brown or dark red, and terminates 



