210 Notices of New or Remarkable 



many fibres attached. This very excellent and beautiful 

 variety has been named Braddick's New York Peach. 



Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. sent specimens of a 

 Peach, the produce of a tree raised from a seed of the Little 

 Red Nutmeg Peach, impregnated with the pollen of the Violet 

 Hative Nectarine ; the fruit is rarely more than seven inches 

 in circumference, but very handsome and of most superior 

 flavour. It is extremely hardy, having ripened its fruit well in 

 very unfavourable seasons in a high and cold situation, from 

 which circumstance it is proposed to call it the Mountaineer 

 Peach. It ripens immediately after the Noblesse. 



A seedling Peach was exhibited, raised by John Wil- 

 li ams, Esq. of Pitmaston, from a stone of the Petit Mignonne, 

 about six years ago, and has been named the Fellow Mig- 

 nonne from the bright yellow colour of its flesh. This Peach 

 becomes perfectly melting when ripe, and partakes strongly 

 of the peculiar flavour of all yellow fleshed Peaches, but is 

 much superior to the Yellow Alberge. 



Nectarines. 



White Nectarines were exhibited from the garden of 

 William Stephen Poyntz, Esq. at Cowdray Lodge, near 

 Midhurst. The tree was brought from Brussels by Anthony 

 Viscount Montagu, the father of Mrs. Poyntz, and has 

 thence been called at Cowdray, the White Brussels Nectarine. 

 It seems, however, to be a distinct variety from the Common 

 White, or Flanders, differing in the peculiar length of its 

 leaves. The fruit is perfectly white, very beautiful, of exqui- 

 site flavour, and much larger than the Flanders. It is singular 



