528 A Classification of Peaches and Nectarines. 



For this purpose, I have formed a synopsis on so extended a 

 scale as to admit not only all those which are at present well 

 known, but such also as are likely to become known, or to 

 be introduced hereafter. For this purpose I create three 

 classes, each of which has three divisions ; these are each 

 separated into two subdivisions, and every subdivision into two 

 sections, making in the whole thirty-six sections. Part only 

 of these sections are applicable to those varieties we are now 

 acquainted with, the others will remain to be filled up as 

 new kinds arise, there being at present no plants with such 

 characters. 



The practice which has lately prevailed, and which I hope 

 will be continued, of obtaining new varieties by cross impreg- 

 nation ; the glandless with the glandular, the large-flowered 

 with the small-flowered, Peaches with Nectarines, and the 

 clingstones with the melting kinds, is the method by which 

 the completion of the arrangement, as well as the extension 

 of good sorts, is most likely to be accomplished. 



The fruits which I have now arranged under the different 

 sections are those, both French and English, which have 

 been described by different authors ; some others are added, 

 which are well known in England, but which have not been 

 noticed in any work of celebrity. 



In the following Tables, the classes are founded on the 

 leaves, and the divisions on the flowers. 



