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Nectarines : — 



1. Lord Napier. 



The earliest and perhaps the best. We have three 

 trees of it, and by placing them in different positions in 

 the house we can have Lord Napiers from the middle of 

 July to the middle of August. 



2. Stanwick Elruge. 



3. Rivers' Orange. 



4. Old White. 



5. Goldoni. 



This is the order in which they have ripened with us, 

 but they are very near together, and all excellent, a well- 

 ripened Goldoni being a magnificent fruit. 



6. Elruge. 



Hardly worth growing when those before and after are 

 so superior. 



7. Pine-apple. 



8. Spenser. 



9. Dryden. 



Pine-apple is a great favourite, being very juicy and 

 sweet as honey. Spenser and Dryden are magnificent 

 additions, carrying on the Lord Napier type without inter- 

 ruption to the first week in September. 

 10. Victoria. 



The skin is always tough, and sometimes a little bitter, 

 but it is a thoroughly good fruit, and most valuable for its 

 lateness. 



Plums : — 



1. Oullins' Golden. 



Worth growing for its earliness, ripening in the house 

 very early in July. It is of handsome appearance, but the 

 flavour hardly corresponds thereto. 



2. Old Green Gage. 



3. Early Transparent. 



4. Transparent. 



5. Late Transparent. 



6. Reine Claude de Bavay. 



7. Coe's Golden Drop. 



These are all magnificent for flavour. In speaking of 



