THE STANWICK NECTRRINE. 



hives ; altogether this specimen forms the noblest tree within our knowledge. 

 Twenty feet in circumference is small, it is true, compared with the Wellingtonia 

 Grigantea, with a diameter of twenty-nine feet two inches, but it affords the mind 

 some little opportunity to judge what the latter must be, Bartram's Garden is the 

 cradle of American Botany; the best book and the most readable of its kind is 

 ''Darlington's life and correspondence of Bartram and Marshall," which can be 

 heartily recommended to every lover of unsophisticated nature. We know of no 

 such instructive botanical biography. — Ed.] 



THE STANWICK NECTARINE. 



The sensation created in England and France by the introduction of the Stanioich 

 Nectarine in 1846 has had few parallels, but it has subsided on discovering that the 

 climate was not entirely favorable to its perfection. In our own country, however, 

 sufficient time has not elapsed fully to test its capabilities ; it is still hoped that it 

 may succeed on the walls of open gardens. At its first appearance it was supposed 

 it was " destined to throw out of cultivation most of the stone fruits so highly prized 

 by Europeans; also, that the Peaches of Paris, as well as the Nectarines of the island 

 of Jersey, were tasteless and worthless when placed by the side of the Stanwick 

 Nectarine." 



We have received a single fine speci- 

 men this season from Mr. Caleb Cope, 

 successfully fruited by his gardener, 

 Jerome GtRAFf, and present an outline 

 of the fruit. 



This Nectarine fniited for the first 

 time in the United States at Mr. 

 Cope's a year ago. The fruit was 

 exhibited at a stated meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 but the committee on fruit failed to 

 give a description, though the curiosity 

 of our horticulturists was excited to 

 know something respecting it. The 

 only notice taken was the award of one 

 dollar to Mr. Cope's gardener. It 

 seems to do well here, except its liabil- 

 ity to crack — a feature from which it 

 may be exempt when allowed to mature in a cold house : this will be soon tried, as 

 two plants are now growing in Mr. C.'s cold vinery. The plant from which our 

 figured specimen was plucked is small, growing in a ten inch pot. Last year it had 

 eautiful Nectarines upon it, some of them slightly cracked; the present season 

 produced but three, two of which decayed before maturity. The plant has labored 



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