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THE ROYAL GEORGE PEACH.
Royal George o f the English Nurseries. Hort. Soc. Fruit
Cat. no. 147.
Red Magdalen ..............'
Millett’s Mignonne. . . . , q f the English Nurseries.
Lockyer’s Mignonne . . .
Madeleine Rouge à petites fleurs o f the French.
For the following remarks upon this variety we
are indebted to Mr. Thompson, whose successful
labours in settling the names of fruit in general,
and of Peaches and Nectarines in particular, will,
we are sure, be, at no distant period, considered as
one of the most useful results of the Horticultural
Society’s Garden.
This, and the sort usually sold in the Nurseries
under the name of Red Magdalen, are the same.
The Red Magdalen of Miller (Madeleine de Courson
of the French) is less common, but is easily distinguished,
not so much by its fruit as by its flowers,
which are large.
Ripens in the end of August or beginning of
September, and is a proper sort for a Peach-house.
In the last unfavourable season this sort was
found to acquire its flavour better than the Grosse
Mignonne : the latter was more affected in consequence
of the cold and want of sun, than the former.
The Royal George and Red Magdalen are different,
say some, because the former is subject to
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