382 On the Classification of Peaches and Nectarines. 



stance of Red Magdalen Peach, which belongs to Subdivi- 

 sion I, of Division 2, of Class 2. Shape, nearly round ; its 

 transverse diameter about two and a half inches, its longi- 

 tudinal diameter, from eye to stalk, about two, and its cir- 

 cumference, sometimes amounting to twelve inches ; cavity 

 at the stalk, wide but shallow ; cleft also shallow, but well 

 marked ; skin, of a purple or deep red to the sun, and of a 

 light green from it, but speckled with red all over; flesh 

 reddish to the sun, greenish from it, highly flavoured, and 

 full of juice, &c. &c— If any peculiarity belongs to the 

 wood, leaves, &c. it is added. 



The glands, by whose presence or absence the classes are 

 denominated, are seated, two or more, on the base of each leaf, 

 at the junction of the footstalk ; they are usually about the 

 size of a pin's head, and secrete a honeyed juice ; the leaves 

 on which they are found, are, in general, rather more lance- 

 olate, and of a more dense and firm substance, smoother 

 on the surface, and have more regular and fine serratures 

 on their edges ; they are constant in such varieties as pos- 

 sess them, and appear to be the result of a peculiar and uni- 

 form organization of the plant, which may perhaps be 

 continued without variation from the seed * The leaves 

 without glands are rather more ovate, of a thinner and more 

 delicate substance than the former, and more deeply and 

 irregularly serrated. 



Both classes are strongly contradistinguished by a liabi- 

 lity to some diseases, and an exemption from others ; the 



* May they not have sprang more immediately from the Almond, which is 

 distinguished by Linneus, from the Peach, by the glands on its leaves ? 



