284 NECTARINES. 



melting, juicy, extremely well flavoured, and separates" 

 from the stone* 



Ripe the middle and end of August. 



4. NEATE'S WHITE. 



New White. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 548. 



White, or Flanders. Hooker, Pom. Lond. p. 30. 



Emmerton's New White. Nursery Catalogues. 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers large. 

 Fruit middle-sized, roundish, very pale yellowish green, 

 becoming almost white in the shade, and slightly tinged 

 with red next the sun* Flesh tender and juicy, with a 

 fine vinous flavour, and separates from the stone, which 

 is rather small. 



Ripe the end of August to the middle of September. 



This has been supposed by some writers to be the 

 same as the Old White Nectarine, cultivated about 

 London, and sold in the nurseries forty years ago. 

 Those, however, who have made it their business to 

 propagate both, know, to their cost, that this is not the 

 case. The Old White could never be made to take 

 upon the Muscle stock : on the contrary, the present 

 variety requires no other, nor have we, in all our col- 

 lections, either Peach or Nectarine that succeeds better 

 upon it. 



From the best information I have been able to obtain, 

 it Was raised by the Rev. Mr. Neate, a magistrate at 

 Whetstone, near London, from a seed of the Old White. i 

 It was given to Mr. Emmerton, a nurseryman at Barnet, 

 who first sold it about thirty years ago. I have not 

 quoted the figure in the Pom. Mag. t. 40., in conse- 

 quence of an accidental error in the description, stating 

 the flesh to adhere to the stone. 



I have been induced to give the name of Neate's 

 White to this Nectarine, to perpetuate the name of 

 that gentleman with whom it originated. 



