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LXXXI. Description of an Elruge Nectarine Tree, in the 

 Garden at West Dean House, Sussex. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. By Mr. John Bowers, Gardener to Lord 

 Selsey, F. R. S. 



Read July 6th, 1824. 



Sir, 



By the desire of Lord Selsey I send you some fruit from 

 the large Elruge Nectarine tree, growing in a fruiting house at 

 West Dean Gardens, for the inspection of the Members of the 

 Horticultural Society, and I take this opportunity to send 

 you the following particulars of this fine tree. 



It is trained to a wooden trellis fixed to the rafters under the 

 glass roof, at one foot distance from the glass ; the length of 

 the trellis is twenty-nine feet, and the width twenty-two, or 

 six hundred and thirty-eight square feet, which is completely 

 filled with fine bearing wood ; the shoots are of a great length, 

 with remarkably fine foliage. The tree is very regular in 

 every part, and free from any gross or luxuriant wood. 



The house is built with upright sashes, two feet three 

 inches to the top of the plate, and the back wall on which 

 the rafters are placed is twelve feet high. The tree is 

 planted within, about the centre of the front of the house, 

 eight inches distant from the lower front plate, and the front 

 wall is built upon arches, to admit room for the roots to 

 extend into the border. The circumference of the trunk, at 

 four inches from the border, is thirty-two inches, it divides 

 itself into two large limbs at the height of nineteen inches 



