NECTARINES. 243 



CHAPTER XXIX, 



NECTARINES. 



They belong to the twelfth class of Linnaeus, and 

 are arranged by the French writers among the pea- 

 ches: the tree differs in no respect visibly from the 

 peach ; the fruit is smooth and naked, without fur or 

 down, the flesh firmer. It seldom succeeds in the cli- 

 mate of this State, unprotected by buildings the tree 

 grows as vigorously as the peach, subject to the same 

 diseases and blossoms and bears fruit in abundance, 

 but they generally fall before perfectly ripe ; from the 

 nakedness of the fruit, they are Equally liable as the 

 plum, to be injured by the various species of Aphides. 



I could never raise them in an open situation, more 

 than one year my trees were then young and vigor- 

 ous, they bore abundantly, and a large portion of the 

 fruit of several kinds ripened in the fullest perfection ; 

 after several subsequent, but vain attempts, I have a-- 



