Report of the Fruit Committee. 



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From these considerations, your Committee have endea- 

 voured, as far as it has been in their power, to adhere to the 

 Nomenclature of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and of Hampton 

 Court ; as they are of opinion that the safest reliance is upon 

 the old established custom of those two most excellent gar- 

 dens ; conducted, as they are at present, by the very able 

 and intelligent persons who have the direction of them ; 

 from whose extensive knowledge, and free communication 

 of it, your Committee has derived the chief part of what ap- 

 pears in this Report. 



The delicious fruit called Peaches, as well as that distin- 

 guished under the name of Nectarines, are too well known to 

 stand in need of any description of them. The classification 

 of them, by the most celebrated French gardeners, is different 

 from that which has been adopted by us, and is, for niceness 

 of discrimination, perhaps preferable to it. To the downy- 

 coated melting fruit, which parts easily from the stone, 

 leaving only a few filaments adhering to it, they give the 

 name of a Peach : The smooth-coated melting fruit, which 

 parts easily from the stone, they call a Violet Peach, or a 

 Smooth Peach : The downy, or rough coated fruit, which 

 adheres closely to the stone, is with them a Pavie, and the 

 smooth-coated fruit, which also adheres closely to the stone, 

 passes under the name of a Brugnon. 



Considering the instances, some of which are enumerated 

 in the Transactions of this Society* of Peaches and Nectarines 

 growing on the same branch of one tree ; and a recent one 

 in this season of 1812, in the garden of Richard Wheeler, 

 Esq. in the New Road, where a Peach of that kind called la 



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