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been often found large in proportion to the size of the fruit, it 

 being in many cases fourteen lines long, and eleven and a half 

 in its greatest diameter, with the section towards the point very 

 much swollen, whereas the base is much more narrow. This 

 peach ripens from the fifteenth of August to the end of that 

 month. 



SMALL WHITE MAGDALEN. Auth. 



Petite Madeleine blanche. Duh. 



This variety only differs from the preceding one in respect 

 to the dimensions of the fruit, which in the present case is of 

 less size; and by its being hollowed at the summit, where there 

 is a very visible cavity ; and in the colour of the skin, which is 

 of a still whiter appearance. 



GROSSE MIGNONNE. Pr. cat. Pom. mag. Duh. 

 Jard. fruit. Bon Jard. Lond. hort. cat. 



Grimwood^s Royal George. Hook. Pom. Lond. 



Grimwood's New Royal George, ^ 



Large French Mignonne, > of the English nurseries, 



French Mignonne, ) 

 Mignonne, ^ 



Veloutee, > of the French gardens. 



Velout^e de Merlet, y 



Royal Kensington. G. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. y. p. 544. 

 Early Vineyard. G. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 543. 

 Grosse Lieblingspjirsiche. Taschenbuch, p. 478. 



The excellence of this variety will account for the number 

 of different names under which it is cultivated. Some of these 

 have previously been determined as synonymous ; a few are 

 now so considered for the first time. It is not improbable that 

 the Marlborough, Rmiald^s Early Galande, Padley''s Early 

 Purple, and the Sioiss Mignonne, will be hereafter added to 

 the list ; if not the same as the Grosse Mignonne, they differ 

 from it so little as not to be worth cultivating in the same gar- 

 dens as distinct varieties. The Vineuse de Fromentin of the 



