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THE MADELEINE DE COURSON PEACH.
Madeleine de Courson, Leliear, Pomone Française, p . 292.
G. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. v .p. 539. Hort. Soc.
Fruit Cat. no. 84.
Madeleine Rouge, or Madeleine de Courson. Duhamel,
Traité des Arbres Fruitiers, vol. ii. t. 7. Noisette, Jard.
F r .p . 87. tab. 18. Bon Jard. 1828, p. 295.
Rouge Paysanne, o fth e French.
Red Magdalen. Miller’s Diet. ed. 8.
An excellent variety, ripening in the end of
August or beginning of September, about the time
of the Grosse Mignonne. I t is very different from
the Red Magdalen Peach of the Nurseries, which is
a larger fruit, with more colour, and small flowers.
The tree is rather subject to mildew.
According to Mr. Lindley, this is the true Red
Magdalen Peach of Miller. I t is remarkable for its
fine, rich, vinous flavour.
Leaves dark green, coarsely and doubly serrated,
glandless.
F lowers large, pale blush.
F ruit small, globular, flattened, deeply cleft on
one side. Colour pale yellow, with a blush of
clear pink where exposed. F lesh quite white, not