By Mr. George Lindley. 



The Editor of the Bon Jardinier, and the Count Lelieur 

 in his Pomone Franqaise, have given a classification on a 

 much more comprehensive scale, introducing a third division 

 of flowers ; and they take notice, also, for the first time, I 

 believe, of two different characters in the glandular leaves. 

 Their method of arrangement, however, appears objection- 

 able in forming their classes from the fruit instead of the 

 leaves, because an attempt at a thorough classification on this 

 principle must be ineffectual till the fruit has arrived at ma- 

 turity. In forming a synoptical table for practical purposes, 

 we should follow the progress of nature herself, as nearly as 

 possible ; we ought not to make an arrangement that is not 

 progressive, or to which we cannot apply ourselves as the 

 parts successively come into existence. The fruit not being 

 the first produced, we ought not to begin with it, in pre- 

 ference to the leaves. 



Having stated thus much, I must render a just tribute of 

 acknowledgement to the writers above mentioned, for having 

 brought into notice the division of the glandular leaves, which 

 are highly important, and sure marks of distinction between 

 varieties which might otherwise be considered alike. 



The anxiety which at present prevails to cultivate the 

 Peach in its full extent, the disappointment which cultivators 

 daily experience in finding one sort of fruit imposed on them 

 for another, to say nothing of the error of continuing to pro- 

 pagate a fruit by a name wholly at variance with acknowledged 

 authority, have induced me to attempt such an arrangement of 

 Peaches and Nectarines as will, to a certain extent, give a faci- 

 lity of discrimination in distinguishing one sort from another. 



