18 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its flesh is succulent, and very red next to the pit. 



The juice is sweet with an enhanced flavor. 



The pit is small, brown, and accented with large nodules. It terminates in a very 

 long & narrow point. 



Merlet confused this type with the Mignonne. The flowers of the late purple peach 

 tree, which are small, & the time that the fruit ripens, only at the beginning of October, 

 are sufficient to distinguish them. 



XIV. PEACH TREE with large flowers and very beautiful round, rich red fruit. 

 MIGNONNE. Large MIGNONNE. VELVET PEACH of Merlet. (PL X.) 



This is a vigorous tree that yields a good deal of fruit & puts out quite a lot of 

 branches. 



Its shoots are slender & very red on the side in the sun. 



The leaves are large, deep green, lightly & very finely denticulate. 



The flowers are large and bright red. 



The fruit is big (twenty-four lignes long, twenty-eight in diameter), quite round, 

 sometimes flattened at the end. It's divided into two hemispheres by a deep groove, not 

 very wide & very narrow at the bottom. One of the edges often is higher than the other. In 

 larger fruit the groove is barely noticeable in the fullest part, but it gets deeper closer to 

 the stalk. The latter is so short & so deeply set inside a very wide & deep cavity that the 

 branch itself leaves a dent in the fruit. The groove also becomes more conspicuous 

 toward the top of the fruit. There's a small indentation or flattening at that end of the fruit. 

 In the middle of it a very small projection formed by the remains of the pistil is visible. 



The skin is thin and is covered with a very light down making it satiny. It easily 

 separates from the flesh. 



