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enumerate the following : Freestones — *Brevoort, 

 Cooledge's favourite, Druid Hill, * Early Tillotson, 

 Marly York, Early sweet water, Haines early red, 

 La Grange, Morris s red rareripe, Morris's white 

 rareripe, President, Red rareripe, (different from 

 Morris's rareripe,) Rareripe late red, * Snow, 

 Van Zandt's superb, Scott's early red, Strawberry, 

 Washington, Walters early, White imperial, 

 Bergen's yellow, Baltimore beauty, Crawford's 

 early Melocoton, Crawford's late Melocoton, Co- 

 lumbia, Pool's large yellow, Red cheek Melocoton, 

 Yellow rareripe. Clingstones — Blood clingstone, 

 Heath, Large white clingstone, Lemon clingstone, 

 Oldmixon clingstone, Orange clingstone, Tippe- 

 canoe, Washington clingstone. These are all 

 highly recommended in " Fruits and Fruit Trees 

 of America;" several have been introduced into 

 Britain : we offer the list here as a guide to 

 those who may wish to import peach trees from 

 America. Those marked * are cultivated by P. 

 Lawson and Sons, Edinburgh. 



We have omitted many names of peaches 

 which are to be found in our nursery catalogues, 

 because so many are merely synonyms, several 

 not worth growing, and a few represented better 

 by those we have included in our list. 



Shanghae peach. — Discovered by Mr Fortune 

 in the north of China, and sent by him to the 

 London Horticultural Society, in whose gardens 

 it has fruited. Buds of this variety sent to 

 Paris by the Society have produced fruit of a 

 very large size and of exceeding high flavour. 

 One fruit, ripened in a late peach-house in the 

 Dalkeith gardens without fire-heat, measured 10 

 inches in circumference. Flowers large ; petals 

 deeply coloured ; glands reniform ; leaves cre- 

 nated ; colour pale yellowish where shaded, 

 crimson red next the sun ; flesh pale yellow, very 

 deep red next the stone, to which it is some- 

 what firmly attached, but not to the extent to 

 be ranked as a clingstone. Tree apparently 

 healthy and a good bearer. Ripens about the 

 same time as the Bellegarde. We apprehend 

 that it must be regarded as a forcing peach in 

 Scotland ; its great merits, however, justly 

 entitle it to such accommodation. 



The following selection, adapted for pot cul- 

 ture, is given by Mr Rivers, viz., Red nutmeg, 

 ripening in July ; Early Anne, Early Tillotson, 

 Acton Scot, Grosse mignonne, Galande, No- 

 blesse, Royal George, Pourpree hative, Reine 

 des Vergers, a beautiful and hardy new peach ; 

 Barrington, Chancellor, Walburton admirable, 

 Late admirable. These ripen nearly in succes- 

 sion, are all melting peaches, and produce fruit 

 from July till the middle of October. With 

 such of the French clingstones, or Pavies, as the 

 Pavie de pomponne, Sanguine grosse admir- 

 able, &c, which seldom ripen in our country, 

 he thinks the peach season may be extended 

 till the middle or end of November, by remov- 

 ing these late varieties in fruit from his orchard- 

 house in October to a warm forcing-house, where 

 they may enjoy a gentle dry heat. 



His selection of nectarines is as follows : 

 Fairchild's early, Hunt's tawny, Elruge, Hard- 

 wicke seedling, Pitmaston orange, Violette 

 hative, New white, Roman, Early Newington, 

 Newington, and Late melting. 



The names of the following peaches are pro- 

 nounced as under : Abricotee — Ab-re-co-tay ; 

 Belle de Vitry — Bell-de Ve-tree ; Grosse Mi- 

 gnonne— Groce Mene-yon ; Madeleine de Cour- 

 son — Mad-lane de Coor-son ; Pavie de Pompone 

 — Pah-vee de Pom-pone ; Pourpree hative — 

 Poor-pray hat-eve. 



SELECT LIST OF NECTARINES. 



Due du Telliers.— Leaves crenated ; glands 

 kidney-shaped ; flowers small ; flesh melting, 

 greenish white, reddish towards the stone, from 

 which it parts freely ; size above medium ; form 

 somewhat oblong and slightly compressed. Ripe 

 towards the end of August. Colour pale greenish 

 where shaded, deep red or purple where fully 

 exposed to the sun ; flavour excellent. Syno- 

 nyms— Dm Tilly's, Du Telliers,. Due de Tello. 

 Of French origin, and long cultivated in this 

 country, but not prior to 1729, as it is not men- 

 tioned in Langley's " Pomona." . According to 

 Rogers, introduced by M. Dutilly Gerrardet, a 

 Dutch merchant, who settled at Putney in 

 Surrey. Its delicacy in growth, and tendency 

 to weaken itself by producing a profusion of 

 bloom in the manner of Fairchild's, has pre- 

 vented its being so generally cultivated as its 

 merits deserve. 



Elruge. — Leaves crenated ; glands kidney- 

 shaped ; flowers small ; flesh almost white to 

 the stone, from which it freely separates ; size 

 medium ; form ovate ; suture shallow at the 

 base, deepening towards the apex. Ripe the 

 beginning of September. Flavour excellent ; 

 stone ovate, pale, in which it is distinguishable 

 from the Violette hative, whose stone is of a deep 

 red colour ; colour palish in the shade, almost 

 blood colour where fully exposed to the sun. 

 One of the best, if not really the very best nec- 

 tarine in cultivation ; an excellent bearer, and 

 one that forces well. It is an English variety, 

 the origin and even the name of which is en- 

 veloped in great obscurity. The description we 

 have given above refers to the Elruge figured 

 in " The Pomological Magazine," t. 49, but not 

 to the Elruge described by Mr G. Lindley in 

 " Guide to the Orchard," p. 288 ; and which 

 latter ^evidently applies to the Elruge of Miller, 

 Ed. 8, No. 2, and of Langley, in "Pomona," 

 p. 102, t. 29, f. 3, and the Elrouge of Switzer, 

 p. 92. This latter Mr Lindley calls Miller's 

 elruge, to distinguish it from the modern ones, 

 and describes it as having " leaves doubly ser- 

 rated, without glands ; flowers small ; fruit 

 middle-sized, rather more long than broad ; 

 skin greenish yellow on the shaded side, but 

 when exposed to the sun, of a dark red or purple 

 colour ; flesh greenish yellow, melting and juicy, 

 of very excellent flavour, and separates from the 

 stone. Ripe the beginning or middle of August." 

 This variety appears to be lost ; and a compa- 

 rison of the two descriptions will show that they 

 are different fruit, more especially as in the one 

 the glands are reniform, and in the other these 

 characters are entirely wanting. Of the last 

 variety we of course know nothing ; the other 

 we hold to be the best of nectarines. The ori- 

 ginal appears to have been of English origin, 

 raised from seed in the time of Charles II. by a 



