PERSICA, PEACH TREE. 15 



The fruit ripens in mid-September along with the large Mignonne, and often 

 earlier. 



This peach tree puts out a lot of branches, so care must be taken to prune it. It 

 yields very little fruit, although it's not likely to abort like the white Madeleine. 



The late Madeleine, or late red Madeleine with small flowers, seems to be a 

 variety of the Courson Madeleine. Its flowers are small. The fruit is of average size & 

 deeply colored. The cavity into the bottom of which the stalk inserts often has some quite 

 conspicuous creases around the edge. If this peach tree whose fruit has such excellent 

 flavor & which only ripens along with the Persiques didn't have such deeply denticulate 

 leaves as well as the habit & most of the features of the Madeleine, I'd be tempted to 

 think of it as a late purple peach. 



XI. PEACH TREE with large flowers, late, full, and flattened fruit, very slightly red skin, 

 and white flesh. 



Malta PEACH. 



This peach tree also can be regarded as a variety of the white Madeleine. 



It's very vigorous & productive. The shoots are slightly red on the side toward the 

 sun & their pith is slightly brown. 



The leaves are more deeply denticulate than those of the white Madeleine & less 

 so than those of the red Madeleine. 



The flowers are large and pale pink. 



The fruit is quite round, slightly flattened from the top to the stalk, sometimes 

 bigger than the white Madeleine but often smaller & shorter. Its groove runs almost 

 equally along both sides of it. The groove is deep only at the tip, where there's no 

 projection at all. The stalk is set into a narrow cavity. 



