202 NECTARINES. 



Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large. 

 Fruit pretty large, somewhat ovate. Skin yellowish or taw- 

 ny-coloured, a little mottled or marbled with dull red or 

 orange on the sunny side. Flesh firm, very pale yellow, 

 or yellowish white, but very red at the stone, to which 

 it closely adheres. Juice plentiful, sugary, and of the most 

 delicious flavour. Sto?ie broad, thick, not deeply rugged. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



»A Selection of JVectarines Jor a Small Garden. 



CHAPTER XII. 

 A CLASSIFICATION OF PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 



HoiH. Trans. Vol. v. 



The confusion of the sorts of Peaches and Nectarines, 

 the misapplication of their names, and the perplexity thus 

 occasioned both to the nurseryman and the gardener, are 

 sufficient inducements to attempt such an arrangement as 

 may remove these inconveniences. 



To accomplish this, three classes are created, each of which 

 has three divisions ; these are each separated into tivo subdi- 

 visions, and every subdivision into tu'o sections ; making in 

 the whole thirty-six sections. Part only of these sections are 

 applicable to those varieties we are now acquainted with ; 

 the others will remain to be filled up as new kinds arise, 

 there being at present no plants with such characters. 



In the following Tables, the classes are founded on the 

 leaves, and the divisions on the flowers.* 



Class I. 



Contains those whose leaves are deeply and doubly ser- 

 rated, having no glands. Fig. 1. [^See following page.^ 



• The «ut8 have been taken from the Horticultural Transactions. Am. Ed< 



