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XVII. A short Account of Nectarines and Peaches naturally 

 produced on the same Branch. By Richard Anthony 

 Salisbury, Esq. F. R. S. $c. 



Read May 3, 1808. 



Though it has long been known, that Nectarines and 

 Feaches are sometimes naturally produced, not only upon 

 the same tree, but upon one and the same branch, I do not 

 find the fact recorded by any author ; and having last year 

 met with two instances, I presume to offer a short history of 

 this anomaly to the Horticultural Society. Whether the re- 

 marks it has suggested are right or wrong, I leave to be de- 

 termined by more able physiologists. 



The first instance, of which I believe any tradition has been 

 handed down, will be found in a letter of the late Peter 

 Collinson, Esq. to Linnjeus, which was read at the last 

 meeting of the Linnean Society. He there, after giving 

 an account of a supposed adulterous intercourse between 

 two Apple trees, standing near each other, one of which in 

 consequence bore both smooth and rough fruits, mentions a 

 Peach tree, that produced Peaches and Nectarines. 



The second instance occurred in Yorkshire, at Londes- 

 borough, then the residence of the Earl of Burlington ; it 

 made so much noise at that time, which was previous to the 

 death of that famous gardener, Thomas Knowlton, as to 

 be visited by the late Dr. Richardson, and many other 

 horticulturists of that extensive county. 



