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on most of them it's not very distinct except at the top & near the stalk. 



The skin is downy, yellowish green, and sometimes slightly tan on the side 

 toward the sun. 



The flesh is white & the juice has quite a pleasant flavor. 



The pit is an inch long, eight lignes wide, six lignes thick, flat on one side, very 

 convex on the other, and terminates in a very sharp point. It's roughly fissured though not 

 very deeply. 



This fruit ripens at the end of September. 



XLI. PEACH TREE with large flowers and fruit with skin & flesh that's red like blood. 

 SA1MGUI1MOLE. BEET PEACH. DRUSELLE. 



This is not a large tree but it produces quite a lot of fruit. 



The shoots are slender & are deep red on the side facing the sun. 



The leaves are moderately large and denticulate on the margins. They turn red in 

 the fall. 



The flowers are large and pink. 



The fruit is small & quite round. 



Its skin is dark red all over & very full of red down. 



All of the flesh is as red as a beet & a bit dry. 



The juice is acrid & bitter, unless it turns warm at the end of September & the 

 beginning of October. 



The pit is small & deep red in color. 



This curious peach, which is as good in a compote as it is un-enjoyable when 

 fresh, ripens after mid-October. 



The CARDINALE (PL XXXI) is pretty much the same kind of peach, but very much 

 bigger, better, & less covered with down. 



