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THE NECTARINE. 
tween the Violette Hative and the Elruge, ripening a few days 
earlier than the latter. 
Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit large, roundish-oval. 
Skin pale green, with a deep violet-red cheek. Flesh pale green, 
slightly red at the stone; melting, rich, and very good. Ripens 
about the 25th of August. Flowers small. 
Elruge. Thomp. 
Common Elruge. 
Claremont. 
Oatlands. 
Spring Grove. 
Lind. 
Anderson’s, ) 
Temple’s, f 
Peterborough, 
of some 
English gardens. 
j incorrectly of many 
( American gardens. 
The Elruge is everywhere esteemed as one of the very finest 
Nectarines. It is an English variety which has been a good 
while cultivated, and, with the Violette Hative, is considered in- 
dispensable in every collection. In this country, when the young 
wood is annually shortened-in , it bears good crops on standard 
trees, which ripen finely. 
AVithout this precaution, like almost all other nectarines, the 
fruit is small, poor, and ripens imperfectly. 
Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit of medium size, roundish 
oval, the suture slight, except at the top, where it is distinctly 
marked. Skin with a pale-green ground, but when fully ex- 
posed, it is nearly covered with deep violet, or blood-red, dotted 
with minute brownish specks. Flesh pale green to the stone, 
or slightly stained there with pale red ; melting, very juicy, with 
a rich, high flavour. Stone oval, rough, of a pale colour. Last 
of August and beginning of September. Flowers small. 
Fairchild’s. Lind. Thomp. 
Fairchild’s Early. 
A very small, indifferent sort, only valued for its earliness, and 
scarcely worth cultivating when compared with the following. 
Leaves with reniform glands. Fruit small, about an inch 
and a fourth in diameter, round, slightly flattened at the top. 
Skin yellowish -green, with a bright red cheek. Flesh yellow 
to the stone, rather dry, with a sweet, but rather indifferent fla- 
vour. Beginning of August. Flowers small. 
Hunt’s Tawny. Thomp. 
Hunt’s Large Tawny, ) . . . 
Hunt’s Early Tawny, } J ‘ 
This is the best very early Nectarine. It is a very distinct 
sort with serrated leaves, and was originated in England about 
thirty years ago. It is worthy of general cultivation, as it is not 
only early but hardy, and an abundant bearer. 
