FREESTONE NECTARINES. 503 



Leaves with globose glands. Fruit large and handsome, 

 roundish oval. Skin, bright yellow, with very deep red cheek, 

 shaded off by a slight mottling of red. Flesh yellow to the 

 stone (which" is small and pointed), sweet, though not rich, 

 with a pleasant and peculiar flavour. First of September. 

 Flowers small. 



2. Due DU TELLIER'S. Lind. Thpmp. 



Du Tilliers. Duke de Tilley: 



Du de Tello. Du Tilly's. 



A very excellent Nectarine, considerably resembling the 

 Elruge, but a much greater bearer. 



Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit rather large, roundish 

 oblong, being slightly narrowed at the top, and broad at the 

 base or stalk. Skin pale green, with a marbled purplish-red 

 cheek. Flesh greenish white, pale red at the stone, melting, 

 juicy, sweet and good. Last of August. Flowers small. 



3. DOWNTON. Thomp. 



The Downton is a seedling, raised by Mr. Knight. It is in 

 quality, appearance, and season, an intermediate variety, be- 

 tween the Violette Hative and the Elruge, ripening a few days 

 earlier than the latter. 



Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit large, roundish oval. 

 Skin pale green, with a deep violet- red cheek. Flesh pale 

 green, slightly red at the stone, melting, rich, and very good. 

 Ripens about the 25th of August. Flowers small. 



4. ELRUGE. Thomp. 



Common Elruge. ) T . , Anderson's. > of some 



Claremont. $ ^ ma Temple's. \ English gardens. 



Oatlands. 



Spring Grove. Peterborough V ^correctly of many 



" * American gardens. 



The Elruge is everywhere esteemed as one of the very 

 finest Nectarines. It is an English variety which has been a 

 good while cultivated, and, with the Violet Hative, is con- 

 sidered indispensable in every collection. In this country, 

 when the young wood is annually shortened-in, it bears good 

 crops on standard trees, which ripen finely. 



Without this precaution, like almost all other nectarines, the 

 fruit is small, poor, and ripens imperfectly. 



Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit of medium size, round- 



