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NECTARINES. 



LATE YELLOW. Pr. cat, 



Violette jaune. N. Duh. Jaune lisse, } o t\ u 

 Rousanne. Mofrin, Lisse jaune, \ ' 

 Jaune lisse — Yellojv. Coxe. Jaune lisse tardive. 



The flowers of this tree are stated by Duhamel to be small, 

 or at most, of medium size ; but the Bon Jardinier says they 

 are of large size, and those of my trees are of that description ; 

 the fruit is round and twenty two to twenty four lines in dia- 

 meter ; the skin is smooth, yellow, partially marbled with red 

 on the sunny side ; the flesh is yellow, with very pleasant sweet 

 juice, possessing the flavour of the apricot. This fruit ripens 

 about the middle of October, and requires a dry and warm 

 autumn to ripen well, and to attain that agreeable taste which 

 it will not otherwise possess. 



CHERRY NECTARINE. Pr. cat. 



P^che Cerise. O. Duh. Lond. Hort. cat. 



Violette Cerise. N. Duh. 



The flowers of this tree are of a very pale rose colour 

 almost white, and nine lines in diameter ; the leaves are at- 

 tended with reniform glands. This is one of the smallest fruits 

 of its class, being no more than fourteen to fifteen lines in 

 diameter, by thirteen in height ; often about eighteen lines by 

 fifteen ; and in a few instances twenty by eighteen, the latter 

 being the dimensions given by Duhamel. The form is round, 

 and the fruit is furrowed on one side by a very distinct longi- 

 tudinal suture, which terminates at the head by a mamelon, 

 always very visible, and somewhat pointed. The skin is 

 smooth, delicate, and shining, of a fine red colour on the sunny 

 side, and of a waxen white on other parts ; it separates readily 

 from the flesh when the fruit is at maturity. These shades 

 give to this fruit a highly pleasing appearance, and cause it 

 to present a similarity to the Pomme d'Api, or Lady apple. 

 The flesh is white, melting, and not highly flavoured ; it de- 

 taches easily from the stone, which is oval, but nearly round, 



