] 66 The Nectarine and Peach. 



The following are the names of the varieties designated 

 by an 0, as unworthy of cultivation. 



Abricotee blanche a longue queue Damas de Tours gros, 



grosse, Dominie Bull's, 



Apricot, Figue grosse rouge, 



Azure hative, Gage, Chancellor, 



Black Hill, Green Gage, Superior, 



Brj'anston Gage, Gwalsh, 



Chesnut, Honey Julien, 



Cheston, Hungarian, 



De Chypre, Isle Vert, 



Court Royal, Imperial Violette a feuilles Panachees. 



Cornemuse, Lawrence's. 



Damas blanc Petit, Pedrigon des Alps, 



Damas Dronet, Pedigron Violet des Alps, 



Damas d'Espagne, Peter's Large Yellow, 



Damas d'ltalie, Pseudo-Mirabelle, 



Damas de Maugeron, Rodney, 



Damas Noir hatif. Royal Dauphin, 



Damas de Septembre, Wheat. 



An account of the Cherries will occupy our attention 

 next. 



Art. II. The Nectarine and Peach ; their liability to be 

 destroyed by the curculio, and remarks on their cultivation. 

 Communicated by J. S. S., Washington, D. C. 



I RETURN you, herewith, the Boston Magazine of Horti- 

 culture, in which I found several interesting articles, and 

 among not the least, your observations on the horticultural 

 fitness of the soil and climate of the District of Columbia; 

 in one section of which I remark, that, in dilating on the 

 good fruits of Mr. Caden's garden, you speak of his having 

 the nectarine, bearing excellent fruit. I have, in a long 

 course of trial, never been able to bring to perfection that 

 of the nectarine^ apricot^ or jdvtn. They (the fruit of them) 

 have been uniformly pierced soon after the fall of the blos- 

 som, by the beetle they call the curculio. Its egg de- 

 posited there soon becoming a worm, feeds on the pulp as 

 it matures, and brings it to the ground, just before it ripens, 

 non-obstant all the projects to resist the attack that I have 

 tried or heard of I beg you will ask Mr. Caden, if he has 

 been so attacked, and how he has succeeded to avert it. 



