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THE COMMON ELRUGE NECTARINE. 



Elruge. G. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 551. Not 



of Miller. 

 Common Elruge. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 23. 



The name of Elruge Nectarine has long found a 

 place in the lists of English fruit-trees, and is sup- 

 posed to be the anagram of Gurles, a Nurseryman 

 by whom it was first either raised or sold. But 

 it is singular, that from some unexplained cause, 

 the kind to which the name was originally applied, 

 and which is described by Miller, has been almost 

 lost from cultivation, while that which is now re- 

 presented has usurped its place. This fact was first 

 pointed out by Mr. George Lindley, in the Tran- 

 sactions of the Horticultural Society, and has been 

 since universally admitted. Hence, there are two 

 Elruge Nectarines in our gardens, one called 

 Miller's Elruge, and the other the Common Elruge. 

 This last is the subject of the following remarks. 

 It is to be suspected, that all the descriptions 

 of modern authors refer to this rather than to 

 Miller's. 



It is probable that the Claremont Nectarine 

 is a synonym of this; and there is reason to 

 believe, that the Vermash figured by Hooker in his 

 Pomona Londinensis, is also a representation of the 



