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NECTARINES. 



side being deeper and less pitted with little excavations. 

 Leaves crenated, with reniform glands ; flowers very small, 

 pale dull red ; fruit large, roundish, inclining to oval, chan- 

 nel shallow at the base, becoming gradually deeper towards 

 the apex ; skin deep violet, or blood colour when exposed, 

 with minute brownish specks, paler in the shade ; flesh whitish, 

 melting, very juicy, rich and high flavoured, a little stained 

 with red next the stone, from which it parts freely ; stone mid- 

 dle-sized, oval, slightly pointed, pale, in which it difiers from 

 the Violette hative, the stone of which is deep red." 



Clermont. For. syn. 



MILLER'S ELRUGE. Pom. mag. 



Elrvge, of Miller. Loud. Hort. cat. 

 Elrvge. Mil. For. 

 Elrouge. 



The fruit of this variety is of medium size ; the colour is 

 dark red, or purple next to the sun, and pale yellow or green- 

 ish on the shaded side ; the flesh is melting, vinous, andjuicy, 

 and separates freely from the stone. Its time of ripening is 

 early in August. 



WHITE NECTARINE. Pr. cat. Pom. mag. For.— 

 LoND. HoRT. Trans. 



Old White, of English Nurseries. 

 White, or Flanders. Hook. Pom. Lond. ? 

 Brugnon hlanc mvsqu^e. May, Pom. Fran. 

 Nectarine blanche de Weitzenfeld, according to Mayer. 



The ample opportunities for correct decisions which the 

 London Horticultural Society possess, give to their conclu- 

 sions a high degree of authority, in accordance with which I 

 have adopted the synonymes above quoted from the Pomolo- 

 gical Magazine. It will be seen, however, that I have omitted 

 one which is adopted in that work; the "New White of the 

 Nurseries," as I find the variety I have received by that title, 

 from the English nurseries to be sl freestone. It is also stated 

 in the New Duhamel, that the variety therein described as the 

 " Violette blanche,^^ and which was obtained from Belgium 

 under the title of " Brugnon blanc,' is likewise a freestone, and 



