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THE VIOLET NECTARINE. 



Violet. Hitt's Treatise, ed. 2, p. 312. 



Violette Mtive. 'Noisette, Manuel, p. 483. G. Lindley in 



Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 522. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 34, 



and of the Nurseries. 



Lord Selsey's Elruge. Hort. Cat. no. 25. 

 Large Scarlet, of some Collections. 

 Early Violet. Knight in Hort. Trans. 

 Petite Violette hative. Duhamel, Traitc, vol. i. p. 26, t. 14, 

 j. 4. 



This excellent Nectarine is commonly cultivated 

 under its French name : we do not, however, ap- 

 prove of using a foreign nomenclature when we 

 have an old-established name of our own. It is not 

 unfrequently sold for the Red Roman, a very dif- 

 ferent fruit. 



Ripens from the end of August to the middle of 

 September ; and deserves cultivation on account of 

 its excellent flavour and great beauty. 



A large Elruge Nectarine, described by Mr. John 

 Bowers, in the 5th volume of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Transactions, page 523, as growing in a 

 fruiting house in Lord Selsey's Garden, at West 

 Dean, in Sussex, has been subsequently ascertained 

 to be this variety. 



LEAVES crenated, with reniform glands. 



FLOWERS small, bright red. 



FRUIT rather larger than that of other Nectarines, 



