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NECTARINES. 



side being deeper and less pitted with little excavations. 

 Leaves crenated, with reniform glands ; flowers very small, 

 pale dull red ; fruit large, roundish, inclining to oval, chan- 

 nel shallow at the base, becoming gradually deeper towards 

 the apex ; skin deep violet, or blood colour when exposed, 

 with minute brownish specks, paler in the shade ; flesh whitish, 

 melting, very juicy, rich and high flavoured, a little stained 

 with red next the stone, from which it parts freely ; stone mid- 

 dle-sized, oval, slightly pointed, pale, in which it differs from 

 the Violette native, the stone of which is deep red." 



MILLER'S ELRUGE. POM. MAG. 



. i. *;;' h :i,v. MwR .hta? W 



Elruge, of Miller. Lond. Hort. cat. 



Elruge. Mil. For. I Clermont. For. syn. 

 Elrouge. 



The fruit of this variety is of medium size; the colour is 

 dark red, or purple next to the sun, and pale yellow or green- 

 ish on the shaded side ; the flesh is melting, vinous, and juicy, 

 and separates freely from the stone. Its time of ripening is 

 early in August. 



WHITE NECTARINE. PR. CAT. POM. MAG. Fou.-f' 

 LOND. HORT. TRANS. 



Old White, of English Nurseries. 

 White, or Flanders. Hook. Pom. Lond. ? 

 Brugnon blanc musque'e. May, Pom. Fran. 

 Nectarine blanche de Weitzenfeld, according to Mayer. 



The ample opportunities for correct decisions which the 

 London Horticultural Society possess, give to their conclu- 

 sions a high degree of authority, in accordance with which I 

 have adopted the synonymes above quoted from the Pomolo- 

 gical Magazine. It will be seen, however, that I have omitted 

 one which is adopted in that work ; the " New White of the 

 Nurseries," as I find the variety I have received by that title, 

 from the English nurseries to be a freestone. It is also stated 

 in the New Duhamel, that the variety therein described as the 

 " Violette blanche," and which was obtained from Belgium 

 under the title of " Brugnon blanc, is likewise a freestone, and 



