38 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its skin is thin, smooth, and covered with very fine down. On the sunlit side it 

 acquires a very beautiful red color. On the other side it's white, tending a little to green. 



The flesh adheres to the pit. It's white except next to the pit & underneath the skin 

 on the sunlit side where it's red. It's firm but nonetheless succulent. In a warm & dry 

 autumn the juice is wine-like, musky, sugary & very enjoyable. It's tasteless when the 

 autumn is cold & rainy. 



The pit is small & red. 



This clingstone ripens at the beginning of October. It stays on the tree for a long 

 time where it looks very pretty as it's about to ripen; but it has unsightly bumps on it 

 when it's still green. 



There's also a red clingstone peach that differs so little from the one above that it 

 hardly can be considered a variety. Nevertheless it ripens a little sooner & it isn't as big. 

 It's flattened at the top where the end of the groove forms an indentation. No 

 protuberance is visible there at all. It's well rounded at the end near the stalk, which 

 inserts into an oval recess that's very deep but not very wide. The skin is delicate, very 

 deep red on the side toward the sun and a lighter red on the shaded side, where there's 

 only a small light yellow area. The flesh is white on the side in the shade and very deep 

 red next to the pit. It's also red underneath the skin on the side toward the sun, & this red 

 color penetrates deeper & mottles the flesh on that side. 



XXXVI. PEACH TREE with medium-sized flowers, and large, round fruit with a gentle red 

 color and a most pleasing flavor. 



TEINDOU. TEIN DOUX [Translator's note: literally, gentle color] (PL XXVII.) 



This is a vigorous tree. 



Its shoots are big & almost green. 



