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TH E ROYAL PEACH.
Royal. Miller’s Diet. no. 7. Forsyth, ed. 7, p. 46.
La Royale. Duhamel, vol. ii.p. 35, t. 24. Noisette, Manuel,
p. 480.
Bourdine. Duhamel, vol. ii. p. 20, 1.12. Noisette, Manuel,
p. 480. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 27.
Têton de Vénus. Hitt on Fruit Trees, p. 320. Noisette,
Maiiuel, p. 480. Jard. Fr. vol. ii. p. 92. Forsyth, ed. 7,
p. 47. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 162.
Late Admirable. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 3.
This magnificent Peach ripens about the latter
end of September, and is by far the most valuable of
our late varieties. These, in an English autumn, are
too often remarkable for nothing but their want of
colour and flavour; but the Royal yields to no
summer Peach in the richness of its juice, the delicacy
of its flesh, or the beauty of its colour. Every
writer agrees on this point, and we scarcely remember
an autumn which was too unfavourable for
bringing it to perfection.
There is no doubt whatever of the identity of
the Royal, the Bourdine, the Teton de Vénus, and
the Late Admirable. The Royal and Late Admirable
are admitted to be the same. Butret, a writer
o f the highest authority in all th a t relates to the
Peach, declares th a t the Têton de Vénus, the Royal,
and the Bourdine, are absolutely the same, and that
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