28 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XXI V . PEACH TREE with small flowers and late smooth wine-like fruit, c£ variegated red to 

 purple. 



Late VIOLETTE. Mottled VIOLETTE. Variegated VIOLETTE (PL XVII.) 



This is a vigorous tree; it puts out lots of branches & yields a lot of fruit. 



The shoots are very deep red on the side in the sun & green on the side against the 

 wall. 



The leaves are large, beautifully green, finely denticulate on the margins, and 

 wrinkled near the midrib. 



The flowers are very small and pale red in color. 



The fruit is medium-sized, very similar to the large early Violette, but less round, 

 more elongated, often sort of crooked. At its top there's a small indentation. In the middle 

 of that there isn't much of a protuberance, but rather a white spot from which emerges the 

 dried up style of the pistil like a very long, black hair. 



The skin is smooth, purple, and marked with specks or small red spots on the side 

 toward the sun, which is why it's called mottled. It's greenish on the side in the shade. 



The flesh is white, tending a bit toward yellow. It's red next to the pit. 



The juice is very wine-like if the autumn is warm & dry. But if it's cold, this 

 peach won't ripen at all. It will split open & only be good for compotes. To hasten & 

 facilitate ripening this tree has to be planted in the warmest possible exposure & the fruit 

 kept uncovered. 



The pit is average-sized. 



The peach ripens a little before mid-October. 



