36 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The skin, completely covered with whitish down, has more color than the 

 Admirable. On the side toward the sun it's colored light red with a lot of darker red in it. 

 On the shaded side it's almost green & tends to become yellow when the fruit is fully 

 ripe. 



The flesh is delicate and white except next to the pit where it's redder than the 

 Admirable. Sometimes there's a light tinge of red underneath the skin on the sunlit side. 



The juice is sugary, refined & pleasant. 



The pit is quite big and deeply fissured. It's liable to rupture inside the fruit, which 

 will then spoil in the center & lose all of its good qualities. 



This fruit ripens at the end of September. 



XXXIV. PEACH TREE with small flowers and large round light red muricate fruit with purple 

 veins and firm & very sweet flesh. 



BELLE de Vitry. Late ADMIRABLE. (PL XXV.) 



Several kinds of peach trees are claimed to be the Belle de Vitry: the Madeleines 

 because sometimes their leaves are almost just as denticulate as theirs; the Mignonnes 

 because this tree has a port which is almost that of the small Mignonne; the Nivette 

 because its fruit is somewhat similar; and finally the Admirable because it shares most of 

 its characteristics. 



This tree is vigorous & fruitful. 



Its shoots are strong. 



The leaves are large and sometimes quite deeply denticulate. 



The flowers are small and red-brown. 



The fruit is big, rounder than the Nivette, about twenty-seven lignes long & 

 twenty-eight or twenty -nine lignes in diameter. The large diameter generally is at the top 

 end. The groove that divides one side of the fruit is wide 



