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A deep groove divides it lengthwise; it terminates at the end near the stalk in a narrow & 

 not very deep recess & at its top in quite a sizable indentation. Usually the indentation is 

 bright red in the middle and no protuberance is visible. At this end of the fruit the flesh 

 around the pit is the same color. 



In rare cases the skin takes on a little color. The flesh is succulent, but the juice 

 usually is tart & bitter. The pit is small & white. 



This very mediocre fruit, cultivated only as a curiosity, ripens about mid-October. 



At first I got these peaches from the small trees of Orleans and propagated them 

 by planting the pits. The resulting trees yielded peaches even worse than those from the 

 trees in Orleans. 



XLIII. African dwarf PEACH TREE with red sterile double flowers. 

 Double-flowered dwarf PEACH TREE. 



Because this small tree yields no fruit at all, one doesn't know whether to list it as 

 a peach tree or as an almond tree, or if it shouldn't even be thought of as a plum tree. 



It persists very much as a dwarf. It produces a lot of very doubled pink flowers 

 shaped very much like those of the peach tree. 



The shoots are slender & red on the side facing the sun like those of most peach 

 trees. 



The leaves when they emerge from the bud are rolled up one inside the other like 

 those of plum trees. When viewed from above, furrows indented in the veins are visible 

 as on the leaves of plum trees. From below the veins appear more prominent than they 

 are on peach tree leaves. But the leaves are oblong like those on peach trees 



