£84 NECTARINES AND PEACHES ON THE SAME BRANCH. 



7. Gold in the yellow copper pyrites of Ckalanches. 



This mine is situate above the confluence of the Ro- 

 rites. manehe and the water of Olle, in the commune of Alle- 



mont. It is celebrated in the annais of French mineralogy 

 for the richness of its veins of silver*. 



We do not know the proportions of the principles of this 

 ore, which was analyzed by Schreiber, who found gold in it. 



IX. 



A short Account of Nectarines and Peaches naturally 'pro- 

 duced on the same Branch, By R. A. Salisbury, £sql 

 F.R.S.$c.f 



Nectarines ar.d JL HOUGH it has Tpng been known, that nectarines and 

 peaches some- p eac f, es are sometimes naturally produced, not only upon the 

 times produced r 11 1 1 -r 1 



on the same same tree, but upon one and the same branch, I do not find 



branch. ^ e f ac ^ recorded by any author ; and having last year met 



with two instances, I presume to offer a short history of this 



anomaly to the Horticultural Society : whether the remarks 



it has suggested are right or wrong, I leave to be determined 



by more able physiologists. 



Earliest notice The first instance, o^' which I believe any tradition has 



of this. been handed down, will be found in a letter of the late 



Peter Collinson Esq. to Linne, which was read at the last 



meeting of the Linnean Society. He there, after giving an 



account of a supposed adulterous intercourse between two 



apple trees, standing near each other, one of which in conse- 



Smooth and quence bore both smooth and rough fruits, mentions a peach 



rough apples, tree, that produced peaches and nectarines. 



Another in- The secon( * instance occurred in Yorkshire, at Londesbo- 



stance. rough, then the residence of the Earl of Burlington ; it made 



so much noise at the time, which was previous to the death 



of that famous gardener, Thomas Knowlton, as to be visited 



«i • See our Journal, p. 124 of the present vol. 



f Trans, of the Horticultural Society, p. 103. 



by 



