44 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XLII. Fruitful dwarf PEACH TREE with large single flowers. 

 Dwarf PEACH TREE. (PL XXXII.) 



This peach tree grows no larger than an apple tree grafted onto a Paradis. So it's 

 sometimes raised in a container so that it can be placed on the table with its fruit. 



The shoots are stout & very short. They have so many buds on them that they 

 almost overlap one another like fish scales. 



The flowers are as large as those of the white Madeleine. They're very pale pink, 

 almost flesh-colored. The bottom of the flower has a little more red in it. The stamens are 

 white & their tips are brown. The stigma of the pistil is yellow. These flowers don't fully 

 open, even though the petals are not very concave. The flowers encircle the branch & are 

 set so close together that there's no room between them. A single branch three inches 

 long bears up to forty or forty-five flowers, which makes a very pretty bouquet. 



The leaves are very long & beautiful, deep green and pendent. Most of them fold 

 along the central vein & curve in an arc on the midrib side. The denticulation is large, 

 extremely deep, & sharp. The bidenticulation is fine & very sharp. The midrib is white & 

 very prominent. The color, length, number, & arrangement of its leaves make this small 

 tree look different than other peach trees. The leaves are five to seven inches long, twelve 

 to fifteen lignes wide, and are attached around the branch by short & thick stalks set two 

 or three lignes apart from one another. 



The fruit is round, quite big, & is plentiful relative to the size of the tree. One of 

 these little peach trees whose top is only nine or ten inches wide sometimes bears eight or 

 ten peaches. The fruit is two inches in diameter & the same in height. 



