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pe NECTARINE TREE. 



THE Nectarine tree (Nuciperjtca) 

 ts of the family of Amygdalus^ or 

 Almond, and by the Botanifts is conft- 

 dered generally as a variety of the Peach, 

 as fome have affirmed to have feen Peaches 

 and Nectarines growing naturally on the 

 fame tree ■, and is of the clafs and order 

 Icofavdria monogynia^ twenty or more (la- 

 mina, and one ftyle, within the fame 

 flower. 



The modern Botanifts give the Nec- 

 tarine no fpecific diftindlion, only as a 

 variety of the Peach, by the old name of 

 A T ^/^r/?^ 5 theNECTARiNETREE,whicli 9 

 like the Peach ? has fpear-Jhaped 9 acutely- 



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