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Worth. — Large, jrellow, with red cheek. Flesh yellow, quite firm, 

 rather rich; quality good; pit free. Season, somewhat earlier than 

 I'jljjerta. Grown in Missouri. lUinoi.s. 



Yellow Alberge {Albcrgc Yclhiiv). — ]\redium, roundish; color 

 yellow, with jiurplish red cheek; suture distinct, passing to the apex. 

 Flesh j'ellow, with deep red at the jiit, juicy, sweet, good; pit free. 

 Season, middle of August. Franco. 



Yellow Rareripe. — Jledium to large, ovate, compressed; color 

 yellow, with clear red cheek and bloom; suture distinct, extending 

 beyond tlic apex; cavitj' narrow. Flesh yellow, with red at pit, 

 tender, and rich-flavored; pit free. Commercial. 



Yellow Tuscany (Dura-cini). — A very large j-ellow cling variety, 

 largely planted in South California, and is now considered the best 

 yellow cling j-et tested for canning. It ripens with Lemon Cling. 

 So far as tested it is free from leaf curl in California, Arizona, and 

 Southwest Texas. 



THE NECTARINE. 



This fine fruit may be described simph' as a smooth-skinned 

 peach, vet as stated in Section 187 of Part 1 it is an ancient fruit in 

 Central .'isia.and it is probal)le that it was originally a smooth-skinned 

 variety of the peach so fixed in Central Asia that it reproduced the 

 l)eculiarity from the pits, as the writer saw tons of the dried fruit 

 lirougiit in from Central Asia to the Xishni-Xovgorod Fair. But 

 in our day varieties of nectarine have been grown from pits of the 

 Persian race of peaches. The fruit is grown in the middle States and 

 South, but it cannot be said that it is conunercial anywhere on a 

 'arge scale except in California, where the fruit is almost exclusivelv 

 u.;ed for canning and drying. The white-fleshed varieties are mainlv 

 used, as they do not color the s)Tups in canning. The propagation 

 aTul management in all respects are the same as the peach. 



V.VRIETIES OF XECTARIXE. 

 Boston. — Large, roundish oval; color liglit yellow, with bright 

 red cheek. Flesh yellow to tlic stone, which is small and pointed, 

 sweet, with pleasant and peculiar flavor; pit free. This variety was 

 grown from a peacli-]iit Ijy i\Ir. T. Lewis, of ]')oston, and is a favorite 

 in tlie peach belt across the continent, and even a leading variety in 

 California for dessert use. 



