THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 29 1 



NECTARINE 



Pninus domestica 



I. Pom. Mag. 3:148. 1S30. 2. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 150. 1831. 3. Kenrick Am. Orch. 264. 

 1832. 4. Downing Fi . Trees Am. 306. 1S45. 5. Horticulturist 1:115. 1846. 6. Cole Am. Fr. 

 Book 215. 1849. 7. Thompson Card. Ass't 518. 1859. 8. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 448. 1889. 

 9. Guide Prat. 162, 365. 1895. 



Bradshaw 6. Caledonian i, 2, 3. Calvel's Pfirsckcnpflaume 8. Goliath of some 8. Howel's 

 3. Houvll's Large i, 2, 4, 7, 8. Jenkin's Imperial 2, 4, 7, 8, 9. Lomw PhilUpe 4. Lomi5 Philippe 

 6, 7 8, 9. Large Early Black 6. Nectarine 1, 8, 9. Nectarine Plum 3, 7. Peach Plum 4, 7, 9. 

 Peach 2, S. Prune PCche i, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8. Pcc/ie tfe Calvel 8. Prune d'Abricot 8. PtV/ie of some 

 9. Rothe Nectarine 9. Rote Nectarine 8. The Nectarine Plum i. 



Much confusion has existed regarding the identity of the Nectarine, 

 Peach and GoHath plums. These names have been interchanged indis- 

 crimmately for the three plums and it is now difficult to separate the varie- 

 ties, especially as they are very similar. The Goliath, however, may be 

 separated from the other two by its pubescent shoots, which the others 

 do not have. The Peach plum is the largest of the three and has a reddish 

 cast whereas the Nectarine and Goliath are dark purple. The earlier 

 writers knew a Nectarine as a synonym of Peach but it was not tintil 1830 

 that the Nectarine was finally described as a separate variety. Nectarine 

 is of imknown origin. The following description is compiled. 



Tree vigorous, round-topped, productive; leaves large, oval; branches glabrous. 

 Fruit early; large, roundish, flattened at the ends, dark purple with thin bloom; flesh 

 greenish-yellow, tinged red at maturity, rather coarse, sprightly; fair to good; stone 

 of medium size, compressed, oval, semi-clinging. 



NEWARK 



Primus domestica 

 This fruit has little to recommend it to the commercial plum-grower; 

 it is small in size and unattractive in color; the quality, however, is very 

 good and the variety is worth planting for home use. Newark originated 

 in Newark, New York, and in 1895 was bought by E. Smith & Sons of 

 Geneva, New York, who disseminated it two years later. 



Tree medium in size and vigor, upright-spreading, rather open, very productive; 

 branches rough; branchlets marked by scarf-skin, leaf-scars prominent; leaves flattened, 

 somewhat drooping, oval or obovate, one and three-quarters inches wide, three and one- 

 half inches long, thick, rugose; margin coarsely serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole 

 thick, pubescent, glandless or with one or two smallish glands usually on the stalk; 

 blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers appearing after the leaves, 



