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or a protuberance at the top. But others claim that when viewed from this end it's shaped 

 very much like the object for which the fruit was named. The stalk is set in a deep & 

 quite wide cavity. 



Its skin is covered with delicate down. It doesn't acquire much color on the side in 

 the sun. All of the shaded side is straw-colored. 



The flesh is delicate and soft. It's white except next to the pit where it's pink. 



The juice has a very fine & very pleasant fragrance. 



The fruit ripens at the end of September. 



The pit is medium-sized and terminates in a point. Large shreds of the flesh stay 

 stuck to it. 



XXXIII. PEACH TREE with small flowers and late, very slightly oblong dark red fruit. 

 ROYALE. (PL XXIV.) 



This peach tree seems to be yet another variety of the Admirable. It's similar in 

 vigor & fruitfulness, in the energy of its shoots, in the beauty of its foliage, and in its 

 flowers which are small, flesh-colored, and edged in carmine. 



The fruit shares some of its characteristics with the Admirable & others with the 

 Breast of Venus. It's big, almost round, and is divided into two hemispheres by a not very 

 noticeable groove. One side usually is convex & the other side is flattened, which makes 

 the fruit somewhat oblong. At its top two small indentations are evident at the sides of a 

 quite large protuberance, but it's a smaller & more pointed one than that on the Breast of 

 Venus. The stalk is attached at the bottom of a deep, narrow, & almost oval cavity. The 

 fruit often has bumps on it like warts. 



