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PEACHES, 



ROYAL. Pb. cat. Pj3i. mag. Mil. For, 



La Royale. Duh. Nois. man. 



Bourdine. Duh. Nois. man. Lend. Hort. Cat. 



Teton de Venus. I ^^"^ ^^'i' ^'f' 



) tor. Lond. Hort. Cat. 



Late Admirable. Lond, Hort. Cat., No. 3. 



The following description is taken from the Pomological 

 Magazine published at London : 



"This magnificent peach ripens in September, and is by 

 far the most valuable of our late varieties. These, in an 

 English autumn, are too often remarkable for nothing but 

 their want of colour and flavour ; but the Royal yields to no 

 summer peach in the richness of its juice, tlie delicacy of its 

 flesh, or the beauty of its colour. Every writer agrees upon 

 this point, and we scarcely remember an autumn which was 

 too unfavourable for bringing it to perfection. There is no 

 doubt whatever of the identity, of the Roj^al, the Bourdine, the 

 Teton de Venus, and the Late Admirable" [of the English col- 

 lections; the French Late Admirable being difierent. — AuTH.] 

 "The Royal and Late Admirable are admitted to be the 

 same. Butret, a writer of the highest authority in all that 

 relates to the peach, declares that the Teton de Venus, the 

 Royal, and the Bourdine, are absolutely the same. Even 

 M. Noisette, in his Manual Complete although he retains the 

 Teton de Venus and Bourdine as distinct, remarks that the 

 Bourdine is nothing but the other in perfection. And finally, 

 the observations of Mr. Thompson, in the garden of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, go completly to prove the identity of the 

 whole. Leaves crenated, with globose glands ; flowers small, 

 pale red ; fruit large, roundish, inclining to oblong ; suture 

 deeply impressed along one side, having the flesh swelling 

 boldly and equally on both sides, with a slight impression on 

 the summit, where there is usually a small nipple — but in this 

 respect the fruit varies ; skin covered with a short, close down, 

 streaked with dull tawny red next the sun, pale green or straw- 

 coloured in the shade; cavity of the stalk rather small; flesh 

 delicate, white, melting, juicy, and high-flavoured, with a 



