260 ^'ECTARIXE. 



This nectarine forms a handsome tree of moderate 

 growth, is a prolific bearer, if on a light dry soil, and 

 a. good southern aspect. It requires much attention 

 during summer, by laying the reserved young wood 

 close to the wall to ripen it, as no late kind of fruit 

 can be expected in the next year, if the bearing wood 

 be not well ripened in this. 



This nectarine was introduced by the great Lord 

 Peterborough from Genoa, and planted in his garden 

 at Fulham, whence it found its way into other gar- 

 dens of the kingdom. 



The foregoing fourteen varieties of nectarine have 

 all been cultivated by the writer, and are such a 

 collection as he can safely recommend according to 

 the descriptions given of them. He is aware that 

 there are three other sorts, r/z. the Ord's, the Murray, 

 and the Vermash. Of these he has heard good re- 

 ports; but he can offer nothing relative to them from 

 his own experience. Of the V^ermash, a name evi- 

 dently of French derivation (rer machi)^ he may 

 observe, that it is probably only another name for 

 the Peterborough ; and yet being in almost every 

 nurseryman's catalogue, and, above all, figured in 

 Hooker's Pomona, as a distinct fruit, he doubts 

 whether or not he may not be mistaken. 



What further relates to the nectarine as a fruit tree, 

 will appear under the head of peach ; to which the 

 reader is referred. 



