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broad. Skin greenish yellow on the shaded side ; but 

 when exposed to the sun, of a dark red or purple 

 colour. Flesh greenish yellow, melting and juicy, of 

 a very excellent flavour, and separates from the stone. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



This nectarine ripened at Twickenham, in 17^7> on 

 a south wall, July 30. O.S., or August 10. N.S. 

 Langley. 



The Elruge nectarine, like the red Roman, has been 

 widely mistaken by gardeners, although, till the intro- 

 duction of Hunt's small Tawny, there was not any 

 nectarine in this country, if elsewhere, which could be 

 arranged in the same class, division, subdivision, and 

 section, with the Elruge of Miller. When the classifi- 

 cation of peaches and nectarines was published in the 

 Hort. Trans, in 1824, I expressed my doubts of the 

 sort being then in existence : this impression is not 

 removed ; for notwithstanding the circulation of that 

 paper by the Society throughout every part of Great 

 Britain, it has not to this day been received into the 

 Chiswick Garden. If any spirited nurseryman would 

 offer a hundred guineas for its recovery, he would 

 amply repay himself by its sale. 



Elruge, or Elrouge, is a sort of lame anagram of 

 Gurle or Gourle, the name of a nurseryman at Hoddes- 

 don, in Hertfordshire, in the reign of Charles the 

 Second, who is said to have raised this nectarine. 



IS. MURRY. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 552. Miller, No. 7. 



Murrey. Ray, J. 



Leaves crenate, with reniform glands. Flowers small. 

 Fruit middle-sized, rather more long than broad, nar- 

 row at the apex, with a little more fulness on one side 

 of the suture than on the other. Skin dark red or 

 purple, pale green next the wall. Flesh pale greenish 

 white, melting, and separates from the stone. Juice 



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