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PEACHES. 



ADMIRABLE. Pk. cat. Duh. 



Admirable. Pr. cat. 25 ed. No. 102. 



The flowers of this tree are small, and of a purple rose co- 

 lour ; the fruit is thirty lines in diameter, and twenty-seven in 

 height — it is divided by a shallow longitudinal groove, and 

 terminated at the summit by a very small nipple ; the skin is 

 velvety, of a light yellow hue on the shaded side, and touched 

 with bright red next the sun ; the flesh is white, except around 

 the stone, where it is tinged with pale red — it is rather firm be- 

 fore it attains to maturity, but when perfectly ripe, it becomes 

 melting, with abundance of sweet juice, of a vinous, rich, and 

 excellent flavour ; the stone is small in proportion to the size 

 of the fruit, which is one of the finest peaches, and ripens about 

 the middle of September ; the tree is very productive, but it 

 is found in France to require more attention to the pruning, 

 than most others because it often has some weak and feeble 

 branches, and it sometimes loses very large ones, being quite 

 subject to the cloqiie^ a malady which is attributed to the cold 

 winds. 



NIVETTE. Pr. cat. Duh. 



Nivette veloutee. Duh. 



La Nivette, or La Veloutee. Die. d'Agric. 



Velotee tardive. 



The flowers of this tree are of medium size, and eleven to 

 twelve lines in breadth ; the leaves are furnished at their base 

 with rounded glands ; the fruit is large, and sometimes thirty 

 lines in diameter, and of the same height — it is divided by a 

 longitudinal groove of no great depth, one side of which is 

 far more projecting than the other, and it is terminated at its 

 summit by a very small nipple ; the skin is almost wholly of a 

 yellowish white colour, and only occasionally tinged with some 

 red veins on the sunny side — it separates pretty easily from the 

 flesh, which is mostly white, but reddish around the stone, and 

 this redness penetrates considerably into the fruit ; it is some- 



