NECTARINES. 



LATE YELLOW. PR. CAT, 



Violette jaune. N. Duh. Jaune lisse, \ r\ r\ ^ 



Rousanne. Mofrin. Lisst jaune, \ 



Jaune lisse Yellow. Coxe. Jaune lisse tardive. 



The flowers of this tree are stated by Duhamel to be small, 

 or at most, of medium size ; but the Bon Jardinier says they 

 are of large size, and those of my trees are of that description ; 

 the fruit is round and twenty two to twenty four lines in dia- 

 meter ; the skin is smooth, yellow, partially marbled with red 

 on the sunny side ; the flesh is yellow, with very pleasant sweet 

 juice, possessing the flavour of the apricot. This fruit ripens 

 about the middle of October, and requires a dry and warm 

 autumn to ripen well, and to attain that agreeable taste which 

 it will not otherwise possess. 



CHERRY NECTARINE. PR. CAT. 



Peche Cerise. O. Duh. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Violette Cerise. N. Duh. 



The flowers of this tree are of a very pale rose colour 

 almost white, and nine lines in diameter ; the leaves are at- 

 tended with reniform glands. This is one of the smallest fruits 

 of its class, being no more than fourteen to fifteen lines in 

 diameter, by thirteen in height ; often about eighteen lines by 

 fifteen ; and in a few instances twenty by eighteen, the latter 

 being the dimensions given by Duhamel. The form is round, 

 and the fruit is furrowed on one side by a very distinct longi- 

 tudinal suture, which terminates at the head by a mamelon, 

 always very visible, and somewhat pointed. The skin is 

 smooth, delicate, and shining, of a fine red colour on the sunny 

 side, and of a waxen white on other parts ; it separates readily 

 from the flesh when the fruit is at maturity. These shades 

 give to this fruit a highly pleasing appearance, and cause it 

 to present a similarity to the Pomme d'Api, or Lady apple. 

 The flesh is white, melting, and not highly flavoured ; it de- 

 taches easily from the stone, which is oval, but nearly round, 



