NECTARINES. 239 



Boston. Leaves, globose ; flowers, small ; flesh, yel- 

 low to stone ; color, light yellow, deep red cheek ; size, 1; 

 quality, 1 ; season, August ; freestone. 



Eemarks. — One of the best; adapted to all locations. 



DowNTON. Leaves, reniform ; flowers, small ; flesh, pale 

 green ; color, pale green, violet, red cheek ; size, 1 ; qual- 

 ity, 1; season. July; freestone. 



Eemarks. — Melting, rich, high flavor. 



Early Yiolet. Leaves, reniform ; flowers, small ; flesh, 

 white, red at stone ;" color, yellow, green in shade, dark 

 purple in sun ; size, 1 ; season, July and August ; freestone. 



Eemarks. — Foreign. Tree, very hardy. Not the El- 

 ruge. Melting, juicy, rich, and high-flavored. 



Elruge. Leaves, reniform ; flowers, small ; flesh, green ; 

 color, pale green ; size, 2 ; season, August ; freestone. 

 Eemarks. — Foreign. Eich, high flavor. 



We give merely the names of the following, as they are 

 seldom cultivated here, being oftener destroyed by the cur- 

 culio, even, than the plum: — Barker, Early Newington, 

 French Yellow, Hunt's Tawny, Hardwicke, Large Early 

 Yiolet, i^eate's White Orange, Bed Eoman, Stanwicke. 



From Report of E. Buchanan, A. II. Ernst, and J. A. 



Warder, to the American Pomological Society. 



NECTAEINES. 



" This fruit, with us, is less hardy than the peach, and is 

 liable to be destroyed by the curculio. The varieties most 

 in esteem, are the Earl)^ Yiolet, Elruge, Golden. Lewis." 



