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ceed with caution, as they are apt to fall off after having 

 attained a considerable size. In order, therefore, to se- 

 cure a crop, it will be the best way to thin them at three 

 separate times ; the first, as soon as the fruit is of the 

 size of a hazel-nut ; the second, when of the size of a 

 small walnut ; and the third time, as soon as the stone has 

 become hardened : after this it rarely happens that either 

 Peach or Nectarine falls off before it is matured. 



In order to render this account of Peaches and Nec- 

 tarines as complete as possible, I shall in the next 

 chapter give an extract from a paper on their Classifi- 

 cation, which I drew up, and presented to the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London, in 1824, and which is 

 printed in the fifth volume of their Transactions, cor- 

 recting two or three errors which had crept in, and 

 adding such other varieties of fruit as have since that 

 time come under my own personal observation. 



INDEX TO THE NECTARINES. 



Aromatic - 7 Flanders White - 4 



Black Nevvington - 20 Golden - - 23 



Brinion - 8 Hunt's Early Tawny - 3 



Brinion, red at stone - 8 Hunt's Large Tawny - 2 



Brugnon - 24 Hunt's Small Tawny - 3 



Brugnon Musque - 21 Italian - 24 



Brugnon Violet Musqu - 21 Large Scarlet 19 



Claremont - 9 Late. Green - 6 



Common Elruge - 10 Lord Selseys Elruge - 19 



Due du Tellier's - - 1 1 Lucombes Black - - 22 



Due du Tello - - 1 1 Lucombes Seedling - 22 



Du Telliers - 11 Marbled - 8 



Dutilly -11 Miller's Elruge - - 12 



Early Black Newington - 22 Murry - - - 13 



Elrouge - 12 Murrey - - 13 



Elruge - - 12 Neiuington - - 27 



Early Newington - - 22 Neate's White - 4 



Emmertons New White - 4 New White - 4 



Fairchild's - 1 Old White - 5 



FairchMs Early - 1 Ord's - - 14 



