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OULLINS EAELY PEACH {Peche Hatif d' Oullins). —Ihia is an 

 early form of the Peach Apricot, of large size, most delicious flavour, 

 and ripens three weeks earlier. The tree is a great bearer. 



Du Pape. See Blade. 



PEACH (Peche; Gros Peche; Be Nancy ; De Wirtemherg ; Boyal 

 Peach). — Fruit, large, oval, and flattened, marked with a deep suture 

 at the base, which gradually diminishes towards the apex. Skin, pale 

 yellow on the shaded side, and with a slight tinge of red next the sun. 

 Flesh, reddish yellow, very delicate, juicy, and sugary, with a rich 

 and somewhat musky flavour. Stone, large, flat, rugged, and pervious 

 along the back. Kernel, bitter. 



Eipe in the end of August and beginning of September. 



This is not the Abricofc PSche of Dahamel, that being our White Masculine ; but 

 the Abricot P^che of Bretonnerie and Sohabol. 



I regard the Peach Apricot and the Moorpark as distinct varieties, but they are 

 so similar in all essential points that they may for all practical purposes be con- 

 sidered identical. There is no doubt, as nurserymen know, that while the Moorpark 

 may be budded freely on the Common Plum, the Peach Apricot requires the 

 Brussels, Brompton, and Damas Noir stocks. 



Forsyth says the Peach Apricot was brought to this country by the Duke of 

 Northumberland in 1767; but Switzer, writing in 1724, speaks of "a very large 

 kind of apricock that is cultivated at Woolhampton, Berkshire, as big as a large 

 peach, and is there called the French Apricock." 



The Peach Apricot is said to have originated in Piedmont as a seedling from 

 Alberge, but at what period is unknown. It is not mentioned in the Jardinier 

 Franjais of 1653, nor in any of the editions of De Quintinye. The earliest record 

 of it among continental writers is by Roger Schabol. 



PECHE TARDIF— Is a late form of Peach Apricot, to which it is 

 quite similar, and ripens a fortnight later. 



Peche. See Peach. 



Peche Hatif d'Oullins. See OulUns Early Peaoh, 



Persian. See Orange, 



PINE APPLE (Ananaa). — -Fruit, large, roundish and flattened, and 

 marked with a rather shallow suture. Skin, thin and delicate, of a 

 deep golden yellow on the shaded side, but with a highly coloured red 

 cheek where exposed to the sun, and speckled with large and small red 

 specks. The flesh is reddish yellow, tender, but somewhat firm ; never 

 becomes mealy, but is juicy, and with a rich pine-apple flavour. Stone, 

 oval, three-ribbed, and impervious along thg ba,ck. Kernel, bitter. 



Bipens in the middle of August. 



POBTUGrAL {Male). — Fruit, very small, resenibling in shape and 

 size the Bed Masculine. It is round, and divided on one side by a 

 deep suture. Skin, pale yellow on the shaded side, and deep yellow, 

 tinged with red, and njarked with brown and red russet spots on the 



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