VI. LIST OF FRUITS. 



rected for the peach. Nectarines rarely succeed in Eng- 

 land so well as peaches. They do not ripen so well : they 

 get into a shrivelled state before they are ripe, the cause 

 of which I never have been able to ascertain. The sorts 

 are numerous. Those cultivated in the King's gardens 

 are the following : Early Newington, Late Newington, 

 Brugnon, Violette hdtive, Du Tellier's, Elruge, Fairchild's, 

 Late Genoa, Murray, White. There are two other 

 nectarines, the Sweet Violet, and the Temple. I recom- 

 mend the White French, a very beautiful fruit, and a great 

 and constant bearer, the Violette hdtive, and the Du Telliers. 

 I have never known the rest to ripen well. The White 

 French, though not of so very fine a flavour as the other 

 three, is so beautiful a fruit and so great a bearer that no 

 garden should ever be without it. To preserve the blos- 

 soms will come under the head of peach ; and the thin- 

 ning of the fruit has already been spoken of under the 

 head of apricot. The rules there given relative to this 

 matter being applicable to all fruit trees that grow against 

 a wall or in espalier. 



277. NUT. The mere hazel-nut such as is produced 

 in the coppices, and in quantities so prodigious that, in 

 the year 1826, it was calculated that there were a greater 

 number of four-bushel sacks of nuts, at Weyhill Fair, 

 than of bags of hops ; though all the hops grown at 

 Farnham and a considerable part of those grown in Kent, 

 are taken to that fair. Of course this is not a thing for 

 a garden nor even fo^ an orchard ; but, there are certain 

 nuts called Cob-nuts, of three times the bulk of the 

 common nut, and with kernals of nearly as fine flavour as 

 that of the filberd. These are propagated, planted, 



