286 NECTARINES. 



In a dry warm season this is a good little fruit. 

 It should be planted on a south or south-east wall to 

 ripen it perfectly. 



SECT. II. Melting Red-fruited. 



7. AROMATIC. G> Lindl. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 551.. 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers 

 small. Fruit middle-sized, somewhat globular. Skin 

 pale straw colour in the shade, but of a deep red or 

 blackish brown on the side next the sun. Flesh pale 

 straw colour, but red at the stdne, from which it sepa- 

 rates. Juice of a rich vinous flavour. 



Ripe the end of August or beginning of September. 



8. BRINION. Switzer, p. 94. 

 Marbled. Ib. 



Brinion red at stone, j N Catalogues. 



Violet red at stone, J 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers 

 small. Fruit the largest of the melting sorts, fre- 

 quently measuring eight inches and a quarter in circum- 

 ference, a little more long than broad, with now and 

 then a small nipple at the apex. Skin very pale yellow 

 next the wall ; but of a deep red on the sunny side, very 

 much marbled with a deeper colour, occasionally mixed 

 with a little pale thin russet. Flesh melting, greenish 

 yellow, but very red at the stone, from which it sepa- 

 rates. Juice excellent. 



Ripe the end of August and beginning of Septem- 

 ber. 



The name of Brinion has been continued to this 

 Nectarine, from the time of Switzer, in 1724. 



It is not a corruption from the word Brugnon, a 

 name by which the French designate their Pavie Nec- 

 tarines ; but from Brin, a brindled or marbled colour. 



