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less in height ; the skin is also rather marbled than washed 

 with a reddish violet colour, and the flesh less vinous; its 

 period of ripening is the middle of September. 



LATE MARBLED VIOLET. Pr. cat. 



Violette tardive. Duh. Lond. Hort. Cat. 

 Violette marbree. 7 j^^-^ 

 Violette panachee. J • y • 



The flowers of this tree are very small and of a pale red 

 colour ; the fruit is of medium size, of rather greater height 

 than diameter, somewhat of a round form, and often partially 

 angular ; the skin is smooth, greenish on the shaded side, 

 touched with red and violet spots next the sun ; the flesh is 

 white, partially approaching a yellow hue, and red next the 

 stone ; it is melting, separates readily from the stone, of a plea- 

 sant vinous taste when at perfect maturity, which in northern 

 climates it only attains when the autumn is dry and warm, 

 as it does not ripen until sometime in the month of October. 

 This is a rare variety which I introduced from the Mediterra- 

 nean the present year. 



LATEST VIOLET. 

 Violette tres tardive. Duh. | P^che noix. Duh. syn. 

 This fruit resembles the preceding in almost every point ; 

 it only diflers in being of an uniform red colour next the sun, 

 its flesh greenish, and in ripening at a still later period. In a 

 dry and warm autumn and in the best exposure, it does not 

 acquire its maturity until the end of October in the latitude of 

 Paris, and where the circumstances are not thus favourable, it 

 does not ripen at all. It seems, therefore, to be calculated 

 only for the more southern climates. 



MUSK VIOLET. Pr. cat. Coxe. 



Brugnon violet. N. Duh. 



Brugnon violet musque. O. Duh. 



Violette musqvee. Lond. Hort. Cat. | Violet music. 



The flowers of this tree are pale red, usually rather large 



