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Fruit large, roundish or slightly depressed at the base and apex. Stalk strong, generally 

 bifurcated, and about an inch in length from the separation from the common stalk, 

 which is sometimes more than half an inch in length. Skin transparent, red mottled with 

 amber colour, especially on the shaded side. Flesh amber-coloured, tender, rich and 

 sweet. Stone middle-sized, round. 



Ripens in the beginning of July. It succeeds well as a standard, 

 but is not so plentiful a bearer as the May Duke. 



This sort is of French origin : it is said to have been found at 

 Choisy near Paris about 1760 by M. Gondouin, Gardener, at that 

 time, to the King of France. 



§ XII. Fruit round or oblate, flesh sweet, juice purple. 



43. May Duke. 

 Syn. May Duke. Switz. Fruit Gard. 139. Langl Pomon. 1. 17, 



f. 3. Mill Diet. No. 3. Hook. Pom. Loud. t. 28. 



Brooks/i. Pom. 7, t. 1 . Forsyth, Treat. 75. Lindl. 



Guide, 145. Hort. Cat. No. 159. 

 Cerise Guigne. Nois. Jard. Fruit. 2. 22. 

 Early Duke. 

 Early May Duke. 

 Large May Duke. 

 Morris's Duke. 

 Morris's Early Duke. 

 Benham's Fine Early Duke. 

 Thompson's Duke. 

 Portugal Duke. 

 Buchanan's Early Duke. 

 Anglaise of some French Collections. 

 Royale Hative. 

 De Hollande. 



Coularde. 



