PERSIC A, PEACH TREE. 25 



A lot of shreds of the flesh remain attached to it when the fruit is opened up. 



This peach ripens at the end of September. 



There are some very late Chevreuses that are hardly worth cultivating because 

 they rarely ripen. 



Nota. Even though the Chevreuse peach trees are vigorous trees, they're extremely 

 sensitive to differences in soil & exposure. Sometimes that can change them so much that 

 they're hardly recognizable & are mistaken for other varieties. The nurserymen at Vitry 

 have some very beautiful & very big Chevreuses & especially some late ones that are 

 about three inches in diameter. The same trees transplanted into ordinary soil yield much 

 smaller fruit & sometimes with a slightly different shape. 



XXI. PEACH TREE with small flowers and smooth, summer fruit with white flesh and skin that's 

 partly white, partly pale red. 



CHERRY PEACH. (PL XV.) 



This tree has the same habit as the small Mignonne peach tree. It's no larger & it 

 produces a good deal of fruit. 



The shoots are slender and a beautiful red on the side toward the sun. 



The leaves are similar to those of the small Mignonne. They're long, narrow, and 

 smooth. Some are wrinkled along the large vein. 



The flowers are small & pale red. 



The fruit is small, at most eighteen lignes long & twenty lignes in diameter. It's 

 well rounded and divided by a wide & deep groove that frequently is detectable on part of 

 the opposite side beyond the protuberance; it terminates in a protuberance that normally 

 is quite big, long, & pointed. 



