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PEACHES. 



APRICOT PEACH. Pit. cat. 



P^che Ahricot, 

 Admirable jaune, 

 Ahricotee, 



Grosse P^che jaune tardive, 

 P^che d^ Orange. 

 Sandalie hermaphrodite. 

 Pavie ahricote, Aud. lat. 

 Grosse jaune. 

 Peche de Burai. 

 Yelloio Admirable. Orange peach. For. 

 Yellow Apricot. Pii. hurt. 



The flowers of this tree are large ; the fruit is large, round, 

 flattened, least broad at the head, and divided by a shallow 

 longitudinal groove ; the skin is covered with down, yellow on 

 the shaded side, and somewhat red on the part exposed to the 

 sun ; the flesh is yellow like that of an apricot, and red next 

 the stone ; it is rather firm, and sometimes even a little dry, 

 unless it is perfectly ripe ; the juice is pleasant, perfumed, and 

 much resembles the apricot, when the autumn is hot and fa- 

 vourable for its maturity ; the stone is small in comparison 

 with the size of the fruit, and it separates with difliculty from 

 the flesh. This peach ripens at Paris about the middle of 

 October, and on standards it gains in quality what it loses in 

 size. Duhamel remarks that it may be propagated from seeds 

 without degenerating ; he also remarks that it is sometimes 

 met with producing small flowers, and that there also exists 

 another variety with very large flowers, which yields still larger 

 fruit. 



CATHARINE. Pr. cat. Pom. mag. Lang. pom. Switz. Mil. 

 HiTT. For. Lond. hort. cat. 



I extract the following description of this clingstone variety 

 from the Pomological Magazine. 



" An old and very valuable variety, ripening in the end of 

 September and beginning of October, and possessing far 

 greater merit than any other of our late clingstone peaches. 



