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CHAPTER XI. 



NECTARINES. 



Sect. I. — JMelting pale Fruited. 



1. Fairchild's. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 

 648. Hitt, Ed. 3. p. 3 1 4. 



Fairchild's Early. Miller, No. 1. 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers large. 

 Fruit the smallest of all the nectarines, being only about 

 four inches and a half in circumference, nearly globular, a 

 Tittle flattened at its apex. Shin bright yellow next the wall, 

 shaded with deep scarlet on the sunny side. Flesh melting, 

 bright yellow to the stone, from which it separates. Juice 

 rich, with a little perfume. Stone obtuse, nearly smooth. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



This beautiful little Nectarine was raised by Thomas 

 Fairchild,- a gardener at Hoxton near London. 



2. Hunt's Large Tawny. JVursery Catalog;ue. 

 Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large, 



deep rose colour. Fruit rather small, but larger than the 

 last, about five and a half or six inches in circumference, 

 somewhat ovate, a little compressed on one side of the su- 

 ture, and fuller on the other, with a prominent apex. Shin 

 pale orange, shaded with deep red on the sunny side, and 

 interspersed with numerous russetty specks. Flesh deep 

 orange, melting, of an excellent flavour, and separates from 

 the stone. 



Ripe the middle and end of August. 



This very excellent Nectarine originated from the follow- 

 ing variety about the year 1824, not through the seminal 

 process ; but, as it appears, by a spontaneous effort in na- 

 ture to enlarge the parts of fructification. In the spring of 

 1826 I observed a few of the maiden plants in the nursery 

 with much larger blossoms than those on the other plants, 

 but promiscuously intermixed among them : which at first 

 led me to suppose that some other sort had been introduced 

 through the carelessness of the budders in the previous 

 budding season; but upon a close examination, I found 

 there was not in the whole collection of Peaches and Nec- 

 tarines then in flower, one Idnd whose blossoms correspond- 



