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the Chancellor, -was planted in 1815, and in 1821, after having 

 ]3reviously prodviced peaches alone, bore on one branch twelve 

 nectarines; in 1825 the same branch yielded twenty-six nectarines, 

 and in 1826 thirty-six nectarines, together with eighteen peaches. 

 One of the jjeaches was almost as smooth on one side as a nectarine. 

 The nectarines were as dark as, but smaller than, the Elruge. 



At Beccles a Eoyal George peach** produced a fruit, "three 

 parts of it being peach and one part nectarine, quite distinct in 

 appearance as well as in flavour." The lines of division were 

 longitudinal, as represented in the woodcut. A nectarine-tree 

 grew five yards from this tree. 



Professor Chapman states -"^ that he has often seen in Virginia 

 very old peach-trees bearing nectarines. 



A writer in the ' Gardener's Chronicle ' says that a peach tree 

 planted fifteen years previously ■*' produced this ye;u- a nectai'ine 

 between two jjcaches ; a nectarine-tree grew close by. 



In 184:-4 *'■ a Vanguard peach-tree produced, in the midst of its 

 ordinary fruit, a single red Eoman nectarine. 



Mr. Calver is stated ^^ to have raised in the United States 

 a seedling peach wliich produced a mixed crop of both peaches and 

 nectarines. 



Near Dorking ''" a branch of the Teton de Venus peach, which 

 reproduces itself truly by see'd,^^ bore its own fruit " so remarkable 

 for its prominent iDoiut, and a nectarine rather smaller but well 

 formed and quite round." 



The previous cases all refer to peaches suddenly producing 

 nectarines, but at Carclew'^ the unique case occurred, of a nectarine- 

 tree, raised twenty years before from seed and never grafted, 

 producing a fruit half peach and half nectai-ine ; subsequently bore 

 a perfect peach. 



To sum up the foregoing facts; we have excellent evidence of 

 peach-stones producing nectarine-trees, and of nectarine-stones 

 producing peach-trees, — of the same tree-bearing peaches and 

 nectarines, — of peach-trees suddenly producing by bud-variation 

 nectarines (such nectarines reproducing nectarines by seed), as 

 well as fruit in part nectaiine and in part peach, — and, lastly, of 

 one nectarine-tree first bearing half-and-half fruit, and subsequently 

 true peaches. As the peach came into existence before the nectarine, 

 it might have been expected from the law of reversion that 

 nectarines would have given birth by bud-variation or by seed 

 to peaches, oftener than peaches to nectarines ; but this is by no 

 means the case. 



"Loudon's, 'Gardener's Mag.,' « ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. p. 299. 



1828. p. 53. *° ' Gardener's Chron.,' 1856, p 



^'5 Ibid., 1830, p. 597. 531. 



■•" 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1841, p. *' Godron, ' De I'Esp&ce,' torn. ii. p. 



617. 97. 



<« 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 18M, p. "'Gardener's Chron.,' 1856, p. 



589. 531. 



