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ing so for twenty years after. P. CoUinsoD informs Lin- 

 naeus that at Lord Wilmington's a tree produced both 

 nectarines and peaches. Sir J. E. Smith, the editor, 

 says, that several instances of this have occurred ; 

 and that he was presented with a fruit half nectarine 

 and half peach. It grew on a tree which usually 

 bore nectarines and peaches ; but in two seasons, at 

 some years' distance from each other, the same tree 

 produced half a dozen of these combined fruits."^ 

 Collinson mentions that he saw both fruits on the same 

 tree close to each other ; and that a peach produced 

 a nectarine from a stone, and not a peach, in his own 

 garden. Without knowing the foregoing facts, Pro- 

 fessor Chapman also stated, that in Virginia peach 

 trees lived a number of years, and that when they 

 were very old, he had often seen them bear necta- 

 rines. The fact is well known, he says, to all old na^ 

 tives of Virginia. {Gard, Mag. vi. 596.) 



* This is by no means an uncommon occurrence. — Ed. 



