FITMASTOIT OMAME NECTAMINE 
ms Nectarine possesses properties quite dis- 
^ tinct from those which are usual to all others. 
The colour of its flesh, and its sugary richness 
flavour, ai’e peculiar to itself; therefore the 
garden of eveiT grower of this favourite description of summer 
fmit should contain it. To John Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, 
is the country indebted for its origin ; and this gentleman, 
in a communication to the London Horticultural Society, in 
1 830, mentions some particulars respecting it, which we will here 
transcribe. He says, — ‘‘The yellow colour of its flesh will dis- 
tinguish it from any of the old varieties ; the flavour and aroma 
are peculiar, and partake, in some degree, of the mixed taste and 
smell of a Plum and a Nectarine ; it has none of the fine vinous 
acid so much recommended in the pulp of the Old Roman and 
Newington Nectarines, hut the admirers of rich saccharine fruits 
will perhaps think it an acquisition, and deserving of culture. 
It sprang from a stone of the Elruge, ripened in the fine season 
