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together with the last of the clingstones & ends with the Mignonnes & the early 

 Chevreuses. 



The white Madeleine is musky, and ants are very fond of it. 



There's a variety of this peach tree that differs only in that its fruit isn't as big. The 

 fruit often is less musky, but it's much more abundant. It could be called the small white 

 Madeleine. 



IX. PEACH TREE with large flowers, white fruit with firm flesh and adherent pit. 

 White CLINGSTONE PEACH. CLINGSTONE MADELEINE. 



This clingstone peach is so similar to the white Madeleine that I have absolutely 

 no doubt that it's one of its varieties. 



The shoots are greenish, slightly red where they face the sun. Their pith is white 

 instead of like that of the shoots of the white Madeleine, which is reddish, tending to 

 black. 



The leaves are light green and deeply denticulate. Almost all of them are slightly 

 puckered along the midrib although not disfigured. Some of them are six inches long & 

 nineteen Ugnes wide. 



The flowers are large and a very light flesh color, almost white. 



The fruit is about the same size & shape as the white Madeleine. It's twenty-six 

 Ugnes long & twenty-eight Ugnes wide. The groove isn't very noticeable on the full part 

 of the fruit, but it's deep near the stalk which inserts into a cavity less open than that in 

 the white Madeleine, & deep also near the top where occasionally there's a very small 

 projection. 



The skin is completely white except on the side toward the sun where it's very 

 slightly mottled with bright red. 



The flesh is firm like that of all clingstones. It's white, succulent, and adheres to 

 the pit where it has some streaks of red. 



