32 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The flowers are small, pale red in color. 



The fruit is very big, twenty-seven lignes long & thirty lignes in diameter. It's 

 round and divided along one side by a not very deep groove. The other side is very 

 rounded and has no indentation or groove. The top is very rounded as well & terminates 

 in a small protuberance which often is no bigger than a pinhead. The stalk inserts into a 

 quite deep & not very wide cavity. 



Its flesh is firm, delicate, and tender. It's white except close to the pit where it's 

 pale red. 



The juice is sweet, sugary, & has a fine accented and excellent wine-like flavor. 



The pit is small. 



The skin is a bright red color on the side that faces the sun. Everywhere else it's 

 light yellow, the color of straw, which makes a very attractive color pattern. 



This peach ripens in mid-September. It deserves its name because of its beauty & 

 its outstanding qualities, & it ranks ahead of the best peaches. It's not likely to get mealy 

 & although it's most ideal when it's in the best exposures, it succeeds quite well in 

 average ones. When the tree declines, the pit enlarges, occasionally splits, & the peach, 

 dropping before it's ripe, is acrid & bitter. 



This tree requires more care in pruning than do the others because it's very 

 susceptible to peach leaf curl, a disease brought on by cold wind. The branches often 

 deteriorate & the very large ones are abruptly lost. 



