34 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES, 



that bears large flowers & yields bigger fruit. 



XXXI. PEACH TREE with large flattened fruit and firm pale flesh that adheres to the pit. 

 Yellow CLINGSTONE. 



This tree that I brought back from Provence looks a lot like the yellow Admirable. 

 But its fruit is flattened on the sides like an apricot. The flesh is a little dry & clings to the 

 pit. It ripens at the same time as the yellow Admirable. It's an extremely good fruit; 

 sometimes it gets bigger than the Pomponne clingstone & ripens just as easily in our 

 climate. 



XXXII. PEACH TREE with small flowers and slightly round, nippled pale red fruit with most 

 pleasing flesh. 



BREAST OF VENUS. (PL XXIIL) 



This peach tree is very similar to the Admirable in vigor, in the strength of its 

 shoots, and in the beauty of its leaves which are very finely denticulate; some of them are 

 puckered near the midrib, and in its flowers that are small, pink, and edged in carmine. 



The fruit isn't as round. Its diameter & length are almost equal (thirty-one lignes 

 by thirty lignes). Occasionally it's much bigger than the Admirable. One side is divided 

 lengthwise by a not very deep groove, often barely detectable, that terminates in a small 

 indentation at the top of the fruit. The other side is slightly flattened & this flattening also 

 terminates in a small indentation at the top of the fruit. Between these two indentations 

 there's usually a protuberance so big that according to some it typifies the fruit. 

 Sometimes, especially on bigger fruit, there's no groove or flattening that's readily 

 apparent on the sides. Nor is there an indentation 



