132 THE PEACH AND NECTARINE. 



CRENATED LEAVES, WITH RENIFORM GLANDS. 

 SMALL FLOWER. 

 Peaches Pavies. 

 Incomparable. 

 Catharine. 



Pea ches Melters. 

 Chancellor. 

 Late Purple. 



Nectarines Melters. 

 Common Elruge. 

 Violet Hative. 

 Aromatic. 



LIST OF VARIETIES. 



The peaches named in the following list, afford 

 a succession from a period immediately after wheat 

 harvest till late autumnal frosts. 



Early White Nutmeg. Very small, about one 

 inch in diameter, good, but not of high flavor. A 

 very slow grower and poor bearer, the trees hard 

 to raise, and very rarely yielding more than a pint 

 or two each at a time. Cultivated only for its early 

 maturity, and can scarcely be . considered as any 

 thing but a curiosity, as its place is well supplied 

 by the later apricots, and excellent peaches follow 

 within two weeks. 



Red or Brown Nutmeg. Somewhat larger than 

 the preceding, a little later, and hardly equal to it 

 in flavor. It is a yellow fleshed peach, and conse- 



