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well flavoured. A grand exhibition fruit. 

 Ripening the third week in September. 



14. ^Darwin. This is the result of a cross between 



Rivers' Orange and Stanwick, the former 

 being the seed-bearing parent. It is an 

 orange-coloured fruit of handsome appear- 

 ance, the flavour being rich and partaking of 

 the Stanwick quality in point of lusciousness. 

 September. 



15. ^Victoria. This is the latest nectarine in culti- 



vation, and requires a warm climate and a 

 favourable situation to ripen it out-of-doors. 

 But it is as a late nectarine for growing in an 

 orchard-house or cool peach-house that it is 

 included in this list. The fruit attains to a large 

 size; roundish oval, flattened at the top; 

 greenish yellow, crimson on the sunny side, 

 very rich and sugary, with the flavour of the 

 Stanwick. It ripens at the end of September. 



SELECTION OF Six VARIETIES OF NECTARINES. 



1. Cardinal. 



2. Rivers' Early. 



3. Lord Napier. 



4. Dryden. 



5. Pineapple. 



6. Humboldt. 



