This is an old French sort often confused with Bollweiler Magdalene of some authors. Tree vigorous, productive; leaves glandless; flowers large; fruit large, spherical, depressed at the ends, distinctly sutured; cavity large; skin finely pubescent, pale yellow, with a deep purple blush; flesh whitish-yellow, stained about the pit, melting, aromatic, sweet; pit small for the size of fruit, free.
Madeleine Striée. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 404. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 40. 1895.
Tree very productive; leaves glandless; fruit large, roundish; skin thin, whitish-yellow, striped with red in the sun; flesh fine, melting, sweet, aromatic; ripens the last of August.
Madeleine Superbe de Choisy. 1. Le Bon Jard. 327. 1882.
This variety originated with a M. Gravier of Choisy-le-Roi, France. Fruit very large, roundish, blushed with deep red where exposed; flesh white, purple at the stone, melting, sweet, aromatic; stone small, free; matures the last of September.
Madison County Mammoth. 1. Mo. State Fr. Sta. Rpt. 11. 1901.
This is a variety from Missouri which ripens too late in New York. The tree in the Station orchard is upright, moderately vigorous, very productive; glands reniform; fruit of the Chili type but more irregular and broader; cavity small; suture extends beyond the apex; skin heavily pubescent, whitish, with considerable mottling; flesh stained at the pit, moderately juicy, tough, leathery; flavor and quality fair; stone slightly elliptical, decidedly clinging; ripens the last of October.
Magdala. 1. Am. Jour. Hort. 6:250. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 452. 1884.
Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, raised Magdala in 1865 from a seed of Orange nectarine. Leaves with reniform glands; flowers large; fruit of medium size, inclining to oval; skin nearly smooth, creamy-white, marbled with crimson; flesh tender, melting, rich; freestone; ripens the last of August.
Magdalen Clingstone. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 1:198. 1831.
Pavie Madeleine. 2. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:13. 1768.