306 NECTARINES. 



Peterborough . 6 Tawny Newington - 28 



Petite Violette Hdtive , - 19 Temple - - 17 



Pitmaston Orange - 15 Temples - - 17 



Red Roman 25 Vermash - 18 



Roman - 25 Violet - - 19 



Roman Red - - 25 Violet Hative - 19 



Saint Omer's - 26 Violet, red at stone p .~..8 



Scarlet - 16 White . 4 



Scarlet Newington - 27 



CHAP. XIV. 



A CLASSIFICATION OF PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 



THE confusion of the sorts of Peaches and Nectarines, 

 the misapplication of their names, and the perplexity 

 thus occasioned both to the nurseryman and the gar- 

 dener, are sufficient inducements to attempt such an 

 arrangement as may remove these inconveniences. I 

 am aware that this has been already done to a certain 

 extent ; but the characters employed for the purpose 

 have, I conceive, been insufficient, as will appear on a 

 comparison of the different arrangements now to be 

 examined. In doing this there is no great difficulty, 

 since the authors to be considered are but few. 



MILLER* and DuHAMELt are the first who have 

 given us any thing like systematic descriptions, and 

 they have gone no further than to distinguish, generally, 

 sawed from crenate or smooth leaves, large from small 

 flowers, and to separate the Peaches with downy skins 

 from the Nectarines with smooth skins, and those whose 

 flesh adheres to the stone from those whose flesh sepa- 

 rates from the stone. Had there been no augmentation 



* Gardener's Dictionary, 8th edit. art. Persica. 



\ Trait^ des Arbres Fruitiers, par Duhamel, vol.ii. p. 1, &c. 



