12 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



it's nevertheless very vulnerable to spring frosts that often damage its flowers & prevent 

 the tree from setting fruit or cause the fruit to drop off after it's set. 



The shoots are pale green, sometimes slightly reddish on the side in the sun. The 

 pith is almost black. 



The leaves are large, shiny, and pale green. They're deeply denticulate on the 

 margins. Some are as long as six inches & twenty-one lignes wide. 



The flowers are large, pale red, and bloom early. 



The fruit is an attractive size, considerably larger than the yellow clingstone 

 peach. It's two inches long & two inches two lignes in diameter. It's round, slightly 

 flattened near the stalk & rounded at the top. It's divided lengthwise by a groove on the 

 fuller part of the fruit that's not very noticeable. But it's quite deep near the stalk which 

 inserts into the bottom of a broad & wide-open cavity & also near the top which 

 terminates in a small, barely visible protuberance. 



The skin is thin and easily separates from the flesh. It's white verging on yellow 

 almost everywhere. On the sunlit side it's slightly streaked with a little bright & delicate 

 red & covered all over with very fine down. 



The flesh is delicate, tender, soft and succulent. It's white mingled with some 

 yellowish streaks; sometimes they're pink next to the pit. 



The juice is plentiful, sweet, and musky. It has a delicate flavor, sometimes quite 

 accented, sometimes less so, depending on the soil & exposure. They greatly influence 

 the quality of this delicate peach & when they're unfavorable it gets mealy. 



The pit is small, round, light gray, one inch long, nine lignes wide, and six lignes 

 thick. 



It begins to ripen about mid-August 



