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THE STRAWBEREY 
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LOED NAPIEE NECTAEINE. 
WITH AN illustration. 
UfllfHEN recently (August 24) tlie collection of cordon-trained Peach and 
ilojy Nectarine trees growing at Chiswick was examined by the Fruit Com- 
by 
inittee of the Royal Horticultural Society, the following official record 
was made :—“ These trees, which have this season done good service, 
are in perfect health, and many of them are bearing heavy crops. Prominent 
amongst all others stands the Lord Napier Nectarine, which was awarded a 
First-class Certificate. The fruit is very large, roundish-oblate, of a deep dark 
purplish colour; the flesh is pale throughout, of rich and excellent flavour, 
having a dash of the Stanwick in it. It is of fine constitution, and a free bearer.” 
We can endorse all that is here said in its praise. 
This report refers to out-door fruits, which were not only large in size and 
first-rate in quality, but in advance of all others as to ripeness. As an indoor 
fruit. Lord Napier is also the earliest and best variety yet introduced. Mr. 
Rivers vouches for it as ripening under glass with the Early York Peach, and 
being an excellent forcing variety, large, of good colour, and exquisite flavour. 
Similar testimony is borne by Mr. Coleman, of the Eastnor Castle Gardens, to 
whom we are indebted for the fruit represented in our plate. Some samples 
communicated by Mr. Rivers, from his orchard-house, were much less coloured 
than these, though of first-rate flavour, while the specimens on the open wall at 
Chiswick were much darker-coloured, the red tint deepening almost to purple. 
Our figure may therefore be taken to represent the average appearance of the 
fruit as to colour, when grown vigorously in an ordinary forcing-house, and well 
exposed to light. 
The high qualities of the fruit of this Nectarine are so fully attested on all 
hands, that the first place amongst early-fruiting sorts is by common consent 
assigned to it, and as such it should find a place in every garden and every forcing- 
house. Dr. Hogg, in his classification of Nectarines, associates it with the 
Stanwick, and describes its pale freely-separating flesh, as having a rich Stanwick 
flavour. This, he adds, “is the earliest of all Nectarines ; it ripens in the first 
week in August, and is eight or ten days earlier than Hunt’s Tawny. It was 
raised by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, from seeds of the Early Albert Peach.’’ 
Its form is well shown in the annexed illustration, from a drawing by Mr. C. T. 
Rosenberg.—T. Moore. 
THE STEAWBEREY. 
^ Probably there are few readers of the Florist and Pomologist who do 
^-)j not grow Strawberries ; many, too, who cultivate as well as grow them. In 
some gardens you may be shown a bed of Strawberrv-plants, a mass of 
^ growth, the runners having been allowed to multiply of their own free 
will, until all traces of the original rows are lost; and on no account will the 
owner of the bed have it disturbed. A gardener told mo the other day that 
