NECTARINES. 



195 



11. Due DUTELLIER'S. Gr. Lindl. iuHort. Trans. Vol. 

 v. p. 551. 



Du Tellier's. Mian's Epitome. 



ell ' } Nurserymen's Catalogues. 



Leaves crenate, with reriiform glands. Flowers small, 

 bright pale crimson. Fruit above the middle size, somewhat 

 oblong, compressed near the suture, and having a few ob- 

 scure angles near the base, and a little narrowed at the apex. 

 Skin pale green next the wall, marbled with deep red or pur- 

 ple next the sun, on a somewhat tawny ground. Flesh 

 greenish white, melting, of a faint red next the stone, from 

 which it separates. Juice sweet and very well flavoured. 

 Stone obtuse, thick. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of September. 



12. MILLER'S ELRUGE. G. Lindl. Hort. Trans. Vol. 

 v. p. 541. 



Elruge. Langley, p. 102. t. 29. f. 3. Miller, Ed. 8. 

 No. 2. 



Elrouge. Switzer, p. 92. 



Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers small. 

 Fruit middle-sized, rather more long than broad. Skin 

 greenish yellow on the shaded side ; but when exposed to 

 the sun, of a dark red or purple colour. Flesh greenish 

 yellow, melting and juicy, of a very excellent flavour, and 

 separates from the stone. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



The Elruge nectarine, like the red Roman, has been 

 widely mistaken by gardeners, although, till the introduc- 

 tion of Hunt's small Tawny, there was not any nectarine in 

 this country, if elsewhere, which could be arranged in the 

 same class, division, subdivision, and section, with the El- 

 ruge of Miller. When the classification of peaches and nec- 

 tarines was published in the Hort. Trans, in 1824, I ex- 

 pressed my doubts of the sort being then in existence : this 

 impression is not removed ; for notwithstanding the circu- 

 lation of that paper by the Society throughout every part of 

 Great Britain/it has not to this day been received into the 

 Chiswick Garden. If any spirited nurseryman would offer 

 a hundred guineas for its recovery, he would amply repay 

 himself by its sale. 



Elruge, or Elrouge, is a sort of lame anagram of Gurle 

 or Gourle, the name of a nurseryman at Hoddesdon, in 



