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stone, to which it firmly adheres. Juice rich and 

 highly flavoured. 



Ripe the beginning of September. 



This Nectarine appears to have been known in this 

 country above sixty years, but by whom introduced is 

 not certain. It was cultivated by the late John and 

 Grosvenor Perfect, at Pontefract, fifty years ago. A 

 tree of it was growing in the garden of W. S. Stanhope, 

 Esq., at Cannon Hall, near Barnsley, in 1788, which 

 had been furnished from the above gentlemen's nursery, 

 and from fruit produced in that year the above descrip- 

 tion was written. I have never met with it since, but 

 no doubt it is in many gentlemen's collections in the 

 county of York. 



27. SCARLET NEWINGTON. G. Lindl. in Hort. 

 Trans. Vol. v. p. 541. 



Newington. Langley, p. 102. 1. 19. f. 1. Miller, 3. 

 Hill, p. 313. Switeer, p. 95. 



Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers 

 large. Fruit rather above the middle size, of a roundish 

 figure. Skin pale amber next the wall, but of a bright 

 red on the sunny side, and marbled with a deeper 

 colour, occasionally intermixed with a little thin russet. 

 Flesh firm, pale yellowish white, but very red at the 

 stone, to which it closely adheres. Juice sweet, brisk, 

 and of a most delicious vinous flavour. Stone small, 

 not deeply rugged. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of September. 



This ripened at Twickenham in 17^7, on a south 

 wall, July 10. O. S., or July 21. N. S. 



The Scarlet Newington Nectarine is undoubtedly the 

 Xewington of Miller, Hill, and Switzer ; but so many 

 others, of a similar character, have sprung since their 

 time, that it becomes necessary some appellation should 

 be prefixed to them, in order that we may know of which 

 sort we are speaking. 



