NECTARINES. 



EARLY VIOLET. PK. CAT. KNIGHT IN HOKT. TRAXS. 



Violet. Pom. Mag. Hitt's Treatise. 

 Petite Violette hative. Dull. Jard. fruit. 

 Brugnon petite violette hatirt . 



{ Bon. Jard. Nois. man. Lind. in Lond. 

 Violette hative. < Hort. Trans. Lond. Hort. cat. and 



( of the English nurseries. 

 Lord Selsey's Elruge. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Large scarlet, of some collections? 



1 CANNOT adopt the same title as the Pomological Maga- 

 ine, as it is so extremely indefinite. The synouymes quoted 

 above I doubt not are all correctly applied, with the exception 

 of the one last named, which I quote from the Pomological 

 Magazine. The trees in my collection received under the 

 title of " Large Scarlet," from one of the most accurate nur- 

 series in London, produce very deep red flowers, and differ 

 very materially from the present variety, which I will now 

 proceed to describe. 



The flowers are small, and the leaves are attended with 

 reniform glands at their base ; the fruit is seventeen to 

 eighteen lines in diameter, and often a line more in height, and 

 is commonly terminated by a small mamelon. The skin is 

 smooth, dark red approaching to violet on the sunny side, and 

 light green, varying to whiteness on the shaded side ; the skin 

 separates readily from the flesh, which is whitish, slightly 

 coloured with red next the stone, melting, replete with sweet, 

 vinous, and highly perfumed juice. The stone, which pretty 

 easily detaches from the flesh, is a very light brownish red. 

 The period of maturity is the^ beginning of September, and in 

 order to taste the fruit in perfection, it should not be gathered 

 until perfectly ripe ; the tree is generally very productive, 



