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having a deep suture. Skin pale yellowish green, or often nearly- 

 white, in some cases slightly tinged with red where exposed to the 

 sun. Flesh greenish white, juicy and tender, with a high and some- 

 what peculiar flavour. Ripens generally in the end of August and 

 heginning of September, a few days earlier than most Nectarines of 

 its size. The tree can be distinguished from other sorts by its glossy 

 dark-green leaves. In the Fruit Catalogue above quoted, this Nec- 

 tarine is named New White, in contradistinction to another called 

 Old White; but I am inclined to the opinion that there is only one 

 White Nectarine at present in cultivation. 



2. Pitmaston Orange. 



Synonyms, according to Horticultural Society's Fruit Cata- 

 logue : Williams's Orange, Williams's Seedhng. 

 Leaves crenated, with globose glands. Flowers large, bright rosy 

 pink. Fruit middle-sized, broad and deeply hollowed at the base, 

 but narrowing to the apex, which is very slightly flattened ; suture 

 wide and shallow, terminating in a rather conspicuous nipple on the 

 top of the fruit. Skin deep yellow where quite shaded, dark purplish 

 red intermixed with a little yellow on the parts that are fully exposed, 

 and at the junction of the two colours the yellow is marbled with 

 dull red. Flesh deep orange, rayed with red at the stone; firm, but 

 perfectly melting, and having a high and rather peculiar flavour. The 

 stone is sharp-pointed, very rugged, and of a dull purplish colour. 

 Season the very end of August and beginning of September. This 

 handsome and excellent fruit was raised from seed by a celebrated 

 horticulturist, John Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, near Worcester. 



3. Hunt's Tawny. 



Synonyms : Hunt's Small Tawny, Hunt's Early Tawny. 

 Leaves serrated, glandless. Flowers small, deep dull pink. Fruit 

 below the middle size, inclining to an ovate form, but somewhat fuller 

 on one side of the suture than on the other. Skin deep dull yellow 

 where shaded, on the exposed side dull red interspersed with rus- 

 sety specks. Flesh dark yellow, melting, juicy, and well flavoured, 

 although not so vinous as No. 2. Ripens from the middle to the 

 end ot August, on which account it is desirable ; in other respects 

 it is inferior to the Pitmaston Orange. 



4. Elruge. 



Synonyms, according to Horticultural Society's Fruit Cata- 

 logue : Anderson's (of some). Common Elruge, Claremont, 

 Oatlands, Temple's (of some), Spring Grove. 

 Leaves crenated, with reniform glands. Flowers small. Fruit 

 middle-sized, of a roundish ovate form, and not much channelled by 

 the suture. Skin pale yellowish green, clouded with dark dull red 

 where exposed to the sun, and a very little mottled and specked with 

 russet. Flesh pale greenish white, slightly stained with red round the 

 stone, very juicy and excellent in flavour. Season the beginning of 

 September. This variety, which is one of the best in cultivation, 

 is said to have been raised about a hundred years ago, *' by John 

 Greening, gardener to the Duke of Newcastle, who then lived at 

 Claremont." Although this Nectarine is generally called Elruge, that 



