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most wax-like and exquisite of all productions for the dessert. In 

 flavor, it is perhaps scarcely so rich as the finest peach, but it has 

 more piquancy, partaking of the noyeau, or peach-leaf flavor. The cul- 

 ture of the nectarine is, in all respects, precisely similar to that of the 

 peach, and its habits, also, are completely the same. It is longer lived 

 and hardier when budded on the plum, but still the nurserymen here 

 usually work it on the peach stock. 



NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. 



NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. The Newfoundland dog is of the 

 Spaniel family, but derives its name from the island of which it is a 

 native. It is usually of a large size, and has long shagged hair, with 

 a coat of fine, soft fur beneath the outer covering, which is almost im- 

 penetrable by water. His color is most frequently black ; sometimes 

 spotted, and partially flecked or grayish ; and occasionally buff. He 

 is remarkably docile and obedient to his master ; and, although very 

 serviceable as a watch dog, when well trained, is good natured to all 

 not suspected of mischievous intentions upon the property of his owner. 

 He will defend his master and his master's property, and suffer no 

 person to injure the one or the other ; and however extreme may be 

 the danger, he will not leave them for a minute. He seems only 

 wanting in speech, in order to make his good feelings and wishes 

 known to all around him. 



One of the most striking traits of the Newfoundland dog, is his 

 fearlessness of water, and particularly as connected with the preser- 

 vation of human life. A writer in the Farmer's Library, Mr. Youatt, 

 gives the following narrative illustrative of this trait. A native of 

 Germany was travelling one evening on foot in Holland, accompanied 



