THE NECTARINE. 567 



Fruit medium, roundish, depressed at base. Skin smooth, colored 

 with carmine or deep purple and dotted with gray in the sun. Flesh 

 white, firm, juicy, vinous, aromatic, freestone. Season last of August. 

 (Alb. Pom.) 



DOWNTON. 



The Downton is a seedling raised by Mr. Knight. It is in quality, 

 appearance, and season, an intermediate variety between the Violette 

 Hative and the Elruge, ripening 'a few days earlier than the latter. 

 Leaves with reniform glands. Flowers small. 



Fruit large, roundish oval. Skin pale green, with a deep violet red 

 cheek. Flesh pale green, slightly red at the stone ; melting, rich, and 

 very good. Separates from the stone. Ripens about the 25th of August. 



Due DU TELLIER'S. 



Due Tilliers. Duke de Tilley. 



Due de Tello. Du Tilly's. 



A very excellent Nectarine, considerably resembling the Elruge, but 

 a much greater bearer. Leaves with reniform glands. Flowers small. 



Fruit rather large, roundish oblong, being slightly narrowed at the 

 top, and broad at the base or stalk. Skin pale green, with a marbled 

 purplish-red cheek. Flesh greenish white, pale red at the stone, melt- 

 ing, juicy, sweet, and good. Separates from the stone. Last of August. 



EARLY NEWINGTON. 



Early Black Newington. Lucombe's Black. 



New Dark Newington. Lucombe's Seedling. 



New Early Newington. Early Black. 



Black. 



The Early Newington is one of the best of clingstone Nectarines. It 

 is not only a richer flavored fruit than the old Newington, but it is 

 larger, dark-colored, and earlier. Leaves serrated, without glands. 

 Flowers large. 



Fruit large, roundish ovate, a little enlarged on one side of the 

 suture, and terminating with an acute swollen point at the top. Skin 

 pale green in its ground, but nearly covered with bright red, much 

 marbled and mottled with very dark red, and coated with a thin bloom. 

 Flesh greenish white, but deep red at the stone, juicy, sugary, rich, and 

 very excellent. Beginning of September. 



ELRUGE. 



Common Elruge. Anderson's. 



Claremont. Temple's. 



Oatlands. Peterborough. 



Spring Grove. 



The Elruge is everywhere esteemed as one of the very finest Necta- 

 rines. It is an English variety which has been a good while cultivated, 

 and, with the Violette Hative, is considered indispensable in every col- 

 lection. In this country, when the young wood is annually shortened-in, 

 it bears good crops on standard trees, which ripen finely. 



