14 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its juice is quite plentiful & very wine-like when the fruit is fully ripe. This 

 enhances its reputation among those who don't dislike firm fruit. 



Its pit isn't big. 



This clingstone ripens at the beginning of September. It makes very fine preserves 

 both with sugar and with vinegar. 



X. PEACH TREE with large flowers and very slightly flattened fruit with redskin and 

 muricate red-veined flesh. 



Red MADELEINE. Courson MADELEINE (PL VII) 



The peach that Riviere & Dumoulin call red Madeleine is very different one from 

 this one. La Quintinye [Translator's note: Jean de la Quintinye, 1626 - 1688, French 

 agronomist and author] evidently didn't know about it. Merlet confused it with the 

 Paysanne which is small, frequently double, & not very commendable. 



This peach tree is extremely similar to that of the white Madeleine. 



The shoots have a bit more color & are more vigorous. 



The leaves are a darker green and are more deeply denticulate & bidenticulate. 

 The large ones are five inches long & twenty lignes wide. The medium ones are four 

 inches long & eighteen lignes wide. 



The flowers are large & slightly redder. 



The fruit is round, often a little flattened at the end near the stalk, in contrast to 

 the white Madeleine. It's bigger when the tree is only partly full of fruit & smaller when 

 the tree bears a lot of it. 



The skin is a beautiful red on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is white except next to the pit where there are some red veins. 



The juice is sugary with an enhanced flavor that ranks this peach among the best. 



The pit is red & quite small. 



