40 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The flowers are small and dark red. 



The fruit is big, rounded, and somewhat longish, about thirty lignes long by 

 twenty-seven or twenty-eight lignes in diameter. The groove dividing it lengthwise is 

 wide & not very deep. The top occasionally terminates in a small pointed projection set in 

 the middle of a small and not very deep indentation. The stalk inserts into the bottom of a 

 cavity that's deep but usually not very wide. 



Its skin is quite firm and adheres to the flesh unless the fruit is very ripe. It has a 

 greenish eye but it turns yellow when the fruit is completely ripe, except on the shaded 

 side where a tinge of green remains. The side toward the sun overall is a light & pale red 

 permeated with darker red spots. It's completely covered with fine white down that makes 

 it look satiny. The down comes off easily when rubbed with the palm of the hand. The 

 skin adheres to the stalk so tightly that often when the fruit is picked some of the skin 

 remains attached to it. 



Its flesh is firm but succulent. It's white verging on green, except next to the pit 

 where there are some very bright red veins. 



The pit is very brown and deeply creviced. 



This peach ripens at the end of September. To be at its best it must be very ripe & 

 have been in a fruit loft for several days. 



XXXVIII. PEACH TREE with small flowers and late oblong, verrucose, colored frail with firm 

 wine-like flesh 



PERSIQUE. (PL XXIX.) 



This tree is handsome, vigorous, and yields lots of fruit, even when growing out 

 in the open. 



