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very liable to rot inside, & furthermore it's less well-reputed than the round one. 



I've discussed the Pau peach not so much to suggest cultivating it but rather to 

 retain its name & the notion of it. It ripens so late that it only can succeed in a warm & 

 dry autumn & it requires the best of exposures. The latter would be much better occupied 



by many other excellent kinds of peaches. 



XL. PEACH TREE with large, semi-double flowers. 



PEACH TREE with semi-double flowers. (PL XXX.) 



This is quite a beautiful peach tree, but it's not very fruitful. 



Its shoots are of average strength. 



The leaves are beautiful, dark green, and uniformly terminate in a very sharp 

 point. The denticulation is delicate & barely perceptible. 



The flowers are large and are composed of fifteen to thirty bright pink petals that 

 pale somewhat when the flowers begin to fade. And one, two, three, or four pistils & a 

 number of fairly large stamens depending on the extent to which the petals have 

 developed. This is a wonderful tree when it's in full bloom. 



It sets single, twin, triple, or quadruple fruit. The triples & quadruples fall off 

 early. Some of the twins & a large number of singles reach maturity. The latter are 

 medium-sized, oblong, twenty-one or twenty-two lignes in diameter & a little more than 

 that in height. They're rarely uniform or nicely shaped. Almost all of them are more 

 enlarged at the tip than at the end near the stalk, which inserts into a narrow but deep 

 cavity. Some have a small protuberance; others have none at all. On some of the fruit the 

 groove penetrates down to the pit; 



