282 NECTARINES. 



the writing of the first edition of Miller's Dictionary, 

 8vo. in 1724. It requires to be budded upon the pear 

 plum. 



2. HUNT'S LARGE TAWNY. Nursery Catalogue. 



Leaves double serrated, without glands. Flowers 

 large, deep rose colour. Fruit rather small, but larger 

 than the last, about five and a half or six inches in cir- 

 cumference, somewhat ovate, a little compressed on one 

 side of the suture, and fuller on the other, with a pro- 

 minent apex. Skin pale orange, shaded with deep 

 red on the sunny side, and interspersed with numerous 

 russetty specks. Flesh deep orange, melting, of an 

 excellent flavour, and separates from the stone. 



Ripe the middle and end of August. 



This very excellent Nectarine originated from the 

 preceding variety about the year 1824, not through the 

 seminal process ; but, as it appears, ^y a spontaneous 

 effort in nature to enlarge the parts of fructification. 

 In the spring of 1826 I observed a few of the maiden 

 plants in the nursery with much larger blossoms than 

 those on the other plants, but promiscuously inter- 

 mixed among them : which at first led me to suppose 

 that some other sort had been introduced 'through the 

 carelessness of the budders in the previous budding sea- 

 son ; but upon a close examination, I found there was 

 not in the whole collection of Peaches and Nectarines 

 then in flower, one kind whose blossoms corresponded 

 with these. I marked the plants, and in the autumn 

 had two or three potted of each sort. In 1828 I placed 

 them under glass, and forced them ; their blossoms still 

 maintained their enlarged character, and were succeeded 

 by fruit which differed in no other respect from the 

 original sort than that of being larger, yet ripening 

 about the same time. 



A fully expanded blossom of the small Tawny Nec- 

 tarine is about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter 



