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name properly belongs to another and a very dilferent sort, which 

 (if it is still in existence) has serrated glandless leaves. Elruge is 

 therefore a misnomer, and the name of Claremont, by which it is 

 sometimes known, would be more appropriate for this kind. 

 5. Violette Hdtive. 



Synonyms, according to Horticultural Society's Fruit Ca- 

 talogue : Violet, Early Violet, Brinion, Early Brugnon, 

 Brugnon Red at the Stone, Lord Selsey's Eh-uge, Hamj)- 

 ton Court, Large Scarlet, New Scarlet, Aromatic, Vermath 

 (of some), Petite Violette Hative, Brugnon Hatif, Violette 

 d'Angervillieres, Violette Musquee, Violet Musk, Violet 

 Red at the Stone. 

 Leaves crenated, with reniform glands. Flowers small. Fruit 

 rather above the middle size, roundish, or a little ovate. Skin pale 

 yellowish green on the shaded parts, on the sunny side a shining 

 dark purplish red, intermixed with small russet dots. Flesh pale 

 yellowish green, considerably stained with red about the stone, juicy 

 and sugary, with a fine vinous flavour. In season about tlie begin- 

 ning of September. 



This is an excellent Nectarine, equal to, and not readily distin- 

 guishable from, the variety last described. It may be known, how- 

 ever, by being generally darker in colour, and more especially by the 

 greater redness of the stone and the flesh surrounding it. 



Nearly allied to the two last are the Imperatrice and the Balgone, 

 or Balgowsn. The Imperatrice is one of the seedlings raised by 

 T. A. Knight, Esq. ; and the other, which is said to be the better 

 of the two, is probably of Scotch origin. 



Another kind, which is expected to prove of great value, first 

 fruited at Stanwick Park in Yorkshire, one of the seats of the Duke 

 of Northumberland, where it was raised from a stone obtained by 

 his grace from Syria. Ripe fruit was sent to the Horticultural 

 Society on the 29th of August, 1846, and is thus described by A-Ir. 

 Thompson in the Society's Journal : — The Stanwick Nectarine " is 

 about the size of an Elruge, and like it in shape, except in being less 

 heart-shaped at the base. Its skin is pale, like that of the white 

 Nectarine, where shaded, with a violet tinge next the sun. The 

 flesh is white, exceedingly tender, juicy, rich, and sugary, without 

 the slightest trace of the flavour of prussic acid. The stone is middle- 

 sized, ovate, with rather a prominent sharp edge, very rugged, and 

 of a chocolate colour. The kernel is sweet, like a nut, possessing 

 nothing of the bitter-almond flavour." Its adaptability to our cli- 

 mate has not yet been ascertained, as I believe the trees have not 

 borne fruit without the assistance of glass, that in question having 

 been produced in a Peach-house, in which situation the fruit is said 

 by Mr. Baillie, gardener at Stanwick, to have ripened fourteen days 

 later than that of the Bellegarde Peach, upon which the Nectarine is 

 budded. 



J. B. WuiTING. 

 Erratum : p. 205, 1. 14, /or west read local. 



