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Worth. Large, yellow, with red cheek. Flesh yellow, quite firm, 

 rather rich; quality good; pit free. Season, somewhat earlier than 

 Elberta. Grown in Missouri. Illinois. 



Yellow Alberge (Alberge Yellow). Medium, roundish; color 

 yellow, with purplish red cheek; suture distinct, passing to the apex. 

 Flesh yellow, with deep red at the pit, juicy, sweet, good; pit free. 

 Season, middle of August. France. 



Yellow Rareripe. Medium to large, ovate, compressed; color 

 yellow, with clear red cheek and bloom; suture distinct, extending 

 beyond the apex; cavity narrow. Flesh yellow, with red at pit, 

 tender, and rich-flavored; pit free. Commercial. 



Yellow Tuscany (Dura-cini) . A very large yellow cling variety, 

 largely planted in South California, and is now considered the best 

 yellow cling yet tested for canning. It ripens with Lemon Cling. 

 So far as tested it is free from leaf curl in California, Arizona, and 

 Southwest Texas. 



THE NECTARINE. 



This fine fruit may be described simply as a smooth-skinned 

 peach, yet as stated in Section 187 of Part 1 it is an ancient fruit in 

 Central Asia, and it is probable that it was originally a smooth-skinned 

 variety of the peach so fixed in Central Asia that it reproduced the 

 peculiarity from the pits, as the writer saw tons of the dried fruit 

 brought in from Central Asia to the Nishni-Novgorod Fair. But 

 in our day varieties of nectarine have been grown from pits of the 

 Persian race of peaches. The fruit is grown in the middle States and 

 South, but it cannot be said that it is commercial anywhere on a 

 large scale except in California, where the fruit is almost exclusively 

 used for canning and drying. The white-fleshed varieties are mainly 

 used, as they do not color the syrups in canning. The propagation 

 and management in all respects are the same as the peach. 



VARIETIES OF NECTARINE. 



Boston. Large, roundish oval; color light yellow, with bright 

 red cheek. Flesh yellow to the stone, which is small and pointed, 

 sweet, with pleasant and peculiar flavor; pit free. This variety was 

 grown from a peach-pit by Mr. T. Lewis, of Boston, and is a favorite 

 in the peach belt across the continent, and even a leading variety in 

 California for dessert use. 



