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HUNT'S TAWNY, M., F. An early medium-sized fruit, roundish 

 ovate; skin pale orange, with dark red cheek mottled with numerous 

 russety specks. Flesh deep orange, juicy, melting, rich, and very 

 good; freestone. Serrated leaves without glands, hardy, early, and 

 prolific; flowers small. 



ELRUGE (English), M., F. Ripens middle season (first week 

 in February), and is one of the finest nectarines. When the young 

 wood is annually shortened in, it bears good crops which ripen 

 well ; without this precaution, like almost all other nectarines, the 

 fruit is small, poor, and ripens imperfectly. Leaves with reiiiform 

 glands and flowers small. Fruit medium size, roundish oval ; 

 suture light, except at the top, where it is distinctly marked. Skin 

 pale green, deep violet in the sun, or blood -red with minute brownish 

 specks. Flesh pale green to the stone, which is free, of oval shape, 

 rough, and pale colour. 



GOLDMINE, M.,F. An excellent New Zealand seedling. Fruit 

 large : freestone ; the pit very small. Flf sh cream colour, tender, 

 juicy, melting, and delicious flavour. Colour bright bronzy red. 



LARGE WHITE, M., F. Commended wherever nectarines are 

 grown in California. A fine light- skinned variety. Leaves with 

 reniform glands ; flowers large. Fruit rather large, nearly round ; 

 skin white, with occasionally a slight tinge of red ; flesh white, 

 tender, very juicv with rich vinous flavour ; stone small and free. 

 Dessert, canning, and drying. Ripens first week in February. 



STANWICK, L., F. Originated in England from seed brought 

 from Syria. Ripens middle of February. Fruit large, roundish 

 oval ; skin pale greenish white, deep violet in the sun ; flesh white, 

 tender, juicy, and of good flavour. There is an improved strain of 

 this variety. 



VICTORIA, L., F. Fruit very large, pale green, of good 

 quality, and a heavy bearer. Ripens middle of February. 



SELECT CHERRIES (Prunus cerasus). 



Western Australia has failed so far to establish for cherry 

 culture the good fame she has earned in respect to most other 

 fruits. Were it not for the high prices offered for fresh local 

 cherries the trees would not have proved profitable; they 

 grow luxuriantly and blossom properly, but fail to set a crop, 

 and birds are great lovers of them. I would caution growers 

 in the warmer districts against planting them at all, whilst 

 tbose located in the cooler and higher districts from Kataiining 

 to Mt. Barker and the Lower Blackwood should endeavour to 

 find out which sorts suit the surrounding conditions best. -A 

 typical cherry country is a moist one possessed of well-drained 

 slopes covered with deep soil, and one which is not exposed 

 to V9ry great diurnal and nocturnal changes of the temperature. 

 In this latter respect the Western Australian climate may not 

 prove uniform enough for cherry culture, the difference between 



