416 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



ADVANCE. Fruit, medium size, or large, round, and depressed 

 at the top. Skin, green on the shaded parts, but red, blotched with 

 ruddy brown, where exposed to the sun. Flesh, greenish white, rich, 

 and sugary, with the rich flavour of the Stanwick, and separating freely 

 from the stone. Flowers, large and brilliant. Leaves, without glands. 



A very fine early nectarine, raised by Mr. Rivers from Pitmaston 

 Orange. Mr. T. F. Rivers remarks in a communication to me : " This 

 is an aberration which would puzzle biologists as to heredity. Except 

 the flower, there is not the least resemblance between this and its 

 parent. The leaves are glandless, the fruit is green-fleshed, and as 

 unlike the parent as possible." It ripens fourteen days before Lord 

 Napier. 



ALBERT. Fruit, of the largest size ; roundish ovate. Skin, 

 greenish white, with a pale red cheek, but frequently without colour, 

 and russeted. Flesh, pale red next the stone, from which it separates, 

 juicy and melting, with a sweet, brisk, and vinous flavour. Flowers, 

 large. Glands, kidney-shaped. 



A very fine nectarine ; ripe in the first and second weeks of Sep- 

 tember. It requires a warm soil and situation, and is remarkably 

 adapted for forcing, when its flavour is well brought out. 



This was raised by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, and is a seedling from the 

 White Nectarine. 



ALBERT VICTOR. Fruit, large, two inches and a half wide and 

 two inches high ; roundish, flattened at the crown, from which a deep 

 suture issues, which becomes more faint towards the stalk. Skin, 

 green where shaded, and mottled with dull red on the side next the 

 sun. Flesh, greenish yellow, rather firm, very juicy, with a brisk and 

 sprightly flavour, very red next the stone, from which it separates, 

 except srrne fibres which adhere. Stone, large and rugged. Flowers, 

 small. Glands, round. 



A very large and handsome nectarine ; ripe in an orchard-house in 

 the end of August, and the middle and end of September against a 

 wall. The fruit often drops before it is ripe. 



Tt was raised by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, from Prince of "Wales Nec- 

 tarine. 



Anderdon's. See Old Newwgton. 

 Aromatic. See Yiolette Hative. 



BALGOWAN (Balgone). Fruit, very large,- roundish, inclining to 

 ovate. Skin, pale green, mottled with red on the shaded side, but 

 entirely covered with deep bright red on the side next the sun. 

 Flesh, with a greenish tinge, veined with red at the stone, melting, 

 very rich, and highly flavoured. Flcwers, small. Glands, kidney- 

 shaped. 



