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PEACHES. 



it is terminated at the summit by a small pointed nipple, and 

 the surface is often scattered over with little protuberances, 

 especially towards its base ; the skin is tinged with bright red 

 on the sunny side ; the flesh is melting, replete with juice, 

 which is sweet and of very agreeable flavour, and it is white 

 except around the stone, where it becomes red ; the colour of 

 the stone is a brownish red, and it is of a moderate size, some- 

 what elongated. This peach ripens towards the middle or 

 end of August, and the tree generally yields abundant crops. 



LATE CHEVREUSE. Pr. cat. 



Chevreuse tardive. N. Duh. 

 Chevreuse tardive, Pourpr^e. O. Duh. 



The leaves of this tree are furnished at their base with reni- 

 form glands ; the flowers are rose-coloured, and about ten 

 lines in breadth ; the fruit is not exactly round, but is some- 

 times a little compressed, and frequently presents small eleva- 

 tions forming a kind of protuberances ; it is twenty-six lines 

 in diameter, and twenty-four in height; the longitudinal 

 groove, which divides it into two sections, is always very dis- 

 tinct, and it frequently happens that one side of it is more 

 swollen than the other ; the summit is terminated by a very 

 distinct nipple ; the skin is pale where shaded, and a fine dark 

 red where exposed to the sun ; the flesh is somewhat red around 

 the stone, but the residue is white — it is melting, and pretty 

 abundant in juice, which is bland, sweet, and of pleasant 

 taste ; the stone is very elongated, sixteen lines in length, and 

 ten to eleven broad — the point which terminates it is often a 

 line in length. This peach attains to maturity at the end of 

 September. 



BELLE CHEVREUSE. Pr. CAT. Duh. Roz. 

 Bellechevreuse. 



This peach is much less regularly rounded than most of the 

 other kinds ; it is usually of greater height than breadth, often 



