384 On the Classification of Peaches and Nectarines. 



sion which the nomenclature of our fruits at present labours 

 under, often unavoidably subjecting the nurseryman to un- 

 merited censure, and his customer to loss and disappoint- 

 ment : it is also hoped that the gardener may derive some 

 immediate advantage from the knowledge that the gland- 

 bearing Peaches and Nectarines are not liable to be injured 

 by the mildew ; as he will, in consequence, be better enabled 

 to select such sorts, as shall be fit for situations subject to 

 that disorder. 



Note bij the Secretary. 

 Two French writers on gardening, viz. M. Poiteau, in 

 the Bon Jardinier, and the Count Lelieur, in his Pomone 

 Francaise, have formed a classification of Peaches and Nec- 

 tarines, on the same plan as that described in the preceding 

 pages. Mr. Robertson was not acquainted with these 

 works, when he communicated his Paper to the Society ; his 

 arrangement differs materially from either of them, being less 

 minute in its divisions ; and the inferences relating to the 

 disorders of the trees of each of his classes, appear to have 

 escaped the notice of the authors above mentioned. 



Synoptical tables, in which are arranged all the Peaches 

 enumerated by M. Poiteau, and by the Count Lelieur, 

 respectively, are annexed, to elucidate the following com- 

 parison of the respective methods of the three writers. They 

 all agree in forming their first division into what Mr. Ro- 

 bertson calls the Families of Peaches and Nectarines, the 

 former being termed by the French Peches Duveteases, or 

 Downy Peaches, and the latter Peches Lisses, or Smooth 



