272 THE NECTARINE. 



Hardwicke. 



Hardwicke Seedling, | Hardwicke's Seedling. 



Foreign. Flowers, small ; glands, reniform : fruit, large, roundish oval, 

 pale green, violet red cheek ; flesh, pale green, little marked with red at 

 stone, juicy. Free-stone. Last August. 



Hunt's Tawny. 

 Hunt's Large Tawny, 1 Hunt's Early Tawny. 



Foreign. Flowers, small, glandless ; fruit, below medium, roundish 

 ovate, point at apex, pale orange, red cheek, russety specks ; flesh, orange, 

 juicy. Free-stone. Middle August. 



\ Large Early Violet. 



Violette Grosse. 



Foreign. Similar to Early Violet, a trifle larger, and leSs high flavored. 



Neate's White. 



2^ew White, I Flanders, I Large Whiter 



Cowdray White, | Emerton's New White, | 



Foreign. Flowers, large : glands, reniform ; fruit, above medium, round, 

 white reddish cheek in the sun ; flesh, white, juicy. Free-stone. Early 

 September. 



.• Oldenburg. 



English. New ; not yet fruited in this country. It is described as of " me- 

 dium size, ovate form, dark red on pale yellow ; flesh, separating freely 

 from the stone, juicy, melting, sugary, vinous." 



Orange. 



Pitmaston's Orange, | William's Orange, I William's Seedling. 



Foreign. Flowers, large ; glands, globose ; fruit, large, roundish ovate, 

 acute ponit at apex, orange yellow, with dark brownish red cheek ; flesh, 

 yellow, red at stone, juicy, sweet. Free-stone. Last August. Valued 

 South. 



Ked Roman. 



Old Eoman, I Brugnon Yiolet Musqu6e, 

 Eoman, | Brugnon Musqufee. 



Foreign. An old variety, which proves best adapted to our northern 

 sections. Flowers, large ; glands, reniform ; fruit, above medium, roundish, 

 greenish yellow, with dull red cheek, and russety specks ; flesh, firm, 

 greenish yellow, deep red at stone, juicy, vinous. Cling-stone. Early 

 September. 



Stanwicke. 



First fruited in this country by Caleb Cope, Esq., Phila. From its high 

 praise in England, where it originated, and the fact of our clear, sunny 

 clime adding to the richness and sugary character of both Peach and Nec- 

 tarine, as compared with England, we are led to suppose this will prove 

 the very best Nectarine extant. 



It was grown from a stone brought from Syria, and is described in the 

 journal of the London Horticultural Society as above medium size, round- 



