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LXXXII. A Classification of Peaches and Nectarines. By 

 Mr. George Lindley, Corresponding Member of the 

 Horticultural Society. 



Read January 6, 1824. 



In offering to the notice of the Horticultural Society this 

 Paper on the Classification of Peaches and Nectarines, I 

 presume I need make no apology. The confusion of the 

 sorts, the misapplication of their names, and the perplexity 

 thus occasioned, both to the nurseryman and gardener, 

 are sufficient inducements to attempt such an arrange- 

 ment as may remove these inconveniences. I am aware that 

 this has been already done to a certain extent; but, the 

 characters employed for the purpose have, I conceive, been 

 insufficient, as will appear on a comparison of the different 

 arrangements now to be examined. In doing this there is 

 no great difficulty, since the authors to be considered are 

 but few. 



Miller* andDuiiAMELf are the first, who have given 

 us any thing like systematic descriptions, and they have gone 

 no further than to distinguish, generally, sawed from crenate 

 or smooth leaves, large from small flowers, and to separate the 

 Peaches with downy skins from the Nectarines with smooth 

 skins, and those whose flesh adheres to the stone from those 



* Gardener's Dictionary, Eighth Edition, sub art. Persica. 



f Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, par Duhamel, Vol. U. page I, &c. 



