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NECTARINES. 



yielding, even when quite small, an abundance of fruit. I 

 extract the following description of this fruit from the Pomo- 

 logical Magazine. 



" This excellent nectarine is commonly cultivated under its 

 French name ; we do not, however, approve of using a foreign 

 nomenclature when we have an old established name of our 

 own. It is not unfrequently sold for the Red Roman, a very 

 different fruit. Ripens from the end of August to the middle 

 of September, and deserves cultivation on account of its excel- 

 lent flavour and great beauty. 



" A large Elruge Nectarine, described by Mr. John Bowers, 

 in the fifth volume of the Horticultural Society's Transactions, 

 page 523, as growing in a fruiting house in Lord Selsey's 

 garden at West Dean, in Sussex, has been subsequently as- 

 certained to be this variety. Leaves crenated with reniform 

 glands. Flowers small, bright red. Fruit rather larger than 

 that of other nectarines, and somewhat broader at the base 

 than at the apex ; cavity of the foot-stalk middle sized ; the 

 point which makes the base of the style seldom projects, but is 

 generally in a shallow cleft, which runs across the apex ; skin 

 where exposed, dark purplish red, intermixed or mottled with 

 pale brown dots ; next the wall pale yellowish green. Flesh 

 whitish, or very pale yellowish green, edged with red at the 

 stone, from which it parts freely ; melting, juicy, and rich. 

 Stone middle sized, roundish, obovate, its fissures not so deep 

 nor so sharp as those of the Elruge, their ridges flattish but 

 rough, and of a red colour, by which it may always be distin- 

 guished from the fruit just named, the stone of which is pale, 

 with no rays of red passing from it into the flesh." 



LARGE EARLY VIOLET. Pr. cat. 



Grosse violette hative. Duh. | Violette de Courson. 



Brugnon grosse violette hative. 



Grosse violette. Bon. Jard. Lond. Hort. Cat. 



The principal diflerence between this fruit and the preceding 

 one is, in point of size, it being much larger, and measuring 

 twenty-four to twenty-six lines in diameter, by a line or two 



