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On the side that's struck by the sun it's a deep red-brown, & on the shaded side it's a light 

 green verging on yellow. When viewed with a lens it's apparent that this side is speckled 

 with red almost all over. When the fruit has ripened in the shade the skin is much less red 

 & tends more to green. 



Its flesh is fine, tender, delicate, and succulent. It's white except underneath the 

 skin on the side facing the sun & next to the pit where it's mottled with a bright pink. On 

 careful examination green spots verging on yellow can be seen. The flesh gets lighter & 

 becomes a purer white closer to the red streaks surrounding the pit. 



The juice is sugary, refined, and wine-like. It's slightly tart in cold regions. 



The pit is average sized (an inch long, ten lignes wide, seven lignes thick), not 

 very elongated, and very red. Shreds of flesh usually remain attached to it. 



This peach ripens a little later than the Madeleine. 



XV. PEACH TREE with large flowers and round dark red very sweet summer fruit. 

 Early PURPLE PEACH. WINE-LIKE. (PL IX.) 



This is quite a vigorous peach tree with big branches. It yields a lot of fruit & it's 

 not fastidious about exposure since the fruit never becomes mealy. 



Its shoots, especially the fruiting ones, are long, slender, & supple. The bark on 

 the sun side is dark red. 



The large flowers are bright red. 



The leaves are dark green & larger than those of the large Mignonne. 



The fruit is an attractive size, round, a little flattened at the end & divided into two 

 parts by a deep groove. 



