NECTARINES, 287 



It is the largest and best of our melting Nectarines, 

 and ought to be in every good collection of fruit. 



9. CLAREMONT. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 551. 



Leaves crenate, with renifonn glands. Flowers small. 

 Fruit middle-sized, slightly ovate. Skin pale green 

 next the wall, but of a deep muddy red next the sun, 

 intermixed with a little dark brown russet : as it ripens 

 the skin shrivels like that of the Newington. Flesh 

 pale greenish white to the stone, where it is slightly 

 tinged with red, and from which it separates. Juice 

 plentiful, and excellently well flavoured. Stone rather 

 large, oblong, thick, deeply rugged. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This Nectarine was raised at Esher, in Surrey, about 

 the year 1750, by John Greening, gardener to the 

 Duke of Newcastle, who then lived at Claremont. In 

 1759 it produced its first fruit, against a south wall, in 

 the Great Tool-house quarter at Hampton Court. 



The above description was taken from fruit produced 

 upon a tree at Heydon Hall, in Norfolk, thirty years 

 ago, which had been purchased of Robert Lowe, a 

 nurseryman at Hampton Wick, in 1766, who had 

 propagated his stock from the tree in the royal gardens, 

 where he had been foreman for several years. It is 

 frequently sold in the nurseries under the name of 

 Elruge. 



10. COMMON ELRUGE. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. v. p. 551. Pom. Mag. t. 49- 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers 

 small, pale dull red. Fruit middle-sized, inclining to 

 oval ; channel shallow at the base, gradually deeper 

 towards the apex. Skin deep violet or blood colour, 

 when exposed, with minute brownish specks ; paler in 

 the shade. Flesh whitish, melting, very juicy, rich, 

 and high-flavoured ; a little stained with red next the 



