FOB AMATEUR CULTURE. 257 



DOWNTON. 



Foreign. Floioers, small ; <7&mcfc, reniform; fruit, large, roundish 

 oval ; skin, pale green, with violet red cheek; flesh, pale green, melting, 

 rich, high flavor. Season, last of August. Freestone. 



EARLY VIOLET. 



Violet Hative, 



viuiei .nauvc, 



Petite Violet Hative, 

 Early Brugnon,' 

 Brugnon red at Stone, 

 Hampton Court, 

 Large Scarlet, 



New Scarlet, 



Aromatic, 



~~ ignon Hatif, 



Violet Musk, 

 Violet red at Stone, 

 Lord Selsey's Elruge. 



Foreign. Tree, very hardy, often confounded with Elruge, from 

 which it is distinguished by its deep red flesh and dark colored stone. 



Flowers, small ; ^Zawcfo, reniform ; fruit, large, roundish, narrowed 

 at apex ; suture, shallow; skin, yellowish green in shade, dark pur 

 plish red, mottled with pale brown dots, in sun ; flesh, whitish, red at 

 stone, melting, juicy, rich and high flavored ; stone, roundish, reddish 

 brown Season, last of August. Freestone. 



ELRUGE. 



Common Elruge, I Temple, 

 Oatland's 



Claremont, 



Anderson's | Spring Grove, 



Foreign. An old variety that has always maintained a first char- 

 acter wherever correctly grown. 



Flowers, small ; glands reniform ; fruit, medium, roundish oval; 

 suture, distinct only at apex ; skin, pale greenish shade, violet or 

 blood red, dotted with brown specks in sun ; fltsh, greenish, slightly 

 stained with pale red at stone, juicy, rich, high flavor ; stone, oval, 

 rough. Season, early Sep. Freestone. 



CLASS II. New and untested, suited to Amateur Pomologists or 



certain locations. 



BARKER. 



Foreign. " Flowers small, glands reniform. Fruit large obovate, dark 

 .red next sun, pale yellowish green where shaded ; flesh fine, yellowish 

 white, rayed with bright red at the stone ; stone large, kernel bitter. 

 August Freestone." New, not yet fruited in this country. 



DUKE OF TELLIER'S. 



Due du Tellier's, I Du de Tello, 

 Du Tilliers, Duke de Tilley, 



Du Tilly's. 



Foreign. Flowers small, glands reniform. Fruit above medium, roundish 



