NECTARINES. 



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out of doors than two ripened under glass, although we certainly 

 obtain house peaches of the highest excellence. 



NECTARINES. 



The Nectarine has been already stated to be identical with the 

 peach. The trees are grown in the same manner in all respects as the 

 peach-trees. We have grown Violette Hsltive, Pitmaston's Orange, 

 Elruge, and others, and I have figured two new seedlijigs kingly sent me 

 by Mr. Rivers. The nectarine is a most delicious fruit when thoroughly 



Fig. 326,— Violette 

 H4tive. 



Fig. 327.— Rivers' 

 Orange. 



Fig. 328. — Rivers Seedling, Fig. 329. — Rivers' Seedling, 

 No. 23. No. 93. 



ripened, and it attains high perfection in the orchard-house if grown 

 as a standard, when the fruit is exposed to both light and air. The 

 fruit should hang upon the tree till the period at which it commences to 

 shrivel. The Violette Hitive (fig. 326) is a capital variety. The 

 Orange nectarine (fig. 327) is very fine, and Rivers has raised several 

 good seedlings (figs. 328 and 329). We have other kinds, but it is 

 hardly worth recording their names. 



The most usual manner of training apricot, peach, and nectarine trees. 



Fig. 330.— Fan-shaped Peach-tree. 



Fig. 331. — The '* Cordon Oblique. 



in this country, is to train them in the form of a fan (fig. 330), and 

 frequently between two dwarf trees a standard fan tree is grown, so that 



