148 



THE NECTARINE PLUM. 



Nectarine. ' Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 1 14. 

 Prune Pche. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 190. syn. 

 Caledonian, of some Collections. 

 Howell's Large. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 128. 



Two Plums, which it is presumed will now be 

 rendered very distinct, have hitherto been confused 

 under the names of Nectarine Plum, Goliath, and 

 Caledonian. These have been made synonymous in 

 Hooker's Pomona Londinensis, t. xxxix ; in Forsyth's 

 Treatise, p. 18 ; and in the Horticultural Society's 

 Fruit Catalogue, at no. 114. Either of these names, 

 it would appear, has been applied indifferently to 

 both sorts. That now figured will, however, be 

 found superior to the other, more generally culti- 

 vated under the name of Goliath. The appearance 

 of the two sorts of fruit is considerably alike ; but 

 in order to distinguish them very readily, it will 

 be only necessary to observe, that the shoots of 

 this sort are glabrous, and those of the other very 

 pubescent. This smoothness and pubescence ex- 

 tends also to the fruit-stalks of the respective sorts, 

 so that they may be known by them, independent 

 of the shoots. 



A good bearer, either on a wall or as a standard, 

 ripening upon the former at the end of July, con- 

 siderably earlier than the Goliath, or the one with 

 pubescent shoots. 



