1875.] THE WELBECK SEEDLING NECTARINE.—CHATER’S NEW HOLLYHOCKS. 13 
bloom in tbe same certain way we can bloom a Hyacinth or a Tulip ? Some 
say the plants should be dried off; but drying them off means weakening the 
bulbs, and withal does not answer the purpose. Others say give them a check, 
and then follow this up by applying a strong bottom-heat; but in nine cases 
out of ten, this has not the least effect. Of course, quiet and genial treatment 
keeps them going, one blooming now and then all the year through ; but where 
space is limited, and one good batch would have done, we are now no further 
forward in our knowledge of its ways than we were the first day the plant was 
introduced.— John Fleming, Cliveden. 
THE WELBECK SEEDLING NECTARINE. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
'HIS Nectarine is a seedling raised by me, and was the result of a cross 
between the Balgowan and Elruge Nectarines. It was originally selected 
for its fine colour and flavour. It has now fruited here for several years, 
and has each season shown its good properties, the fruit being of the 
largest size for a nectarine, and nearly black in colour when well ripened, and 
then its flavour is delicious. This year the original tree bore a very heavy crop, 
from which the specimens figured were selected. A yellow-fleshed Nectarine, a 
seedling raised between the Pitmaston and Mr. Rivers’ Pine-apple Nectarines, has 
fruited with me this autumn for the first time. It is of a larger size than the 
Pine-apple, with its fine dark colour on the sunny side, and it also has its rich 
flavour, and therefore promises to be a variety worthy of growing along with 
the new kinds lately introduced.— William Tillery, Welbeck. 
*** The specimens of this fine Nectarine which Mr. Tillery sent us were not 
only exceedingly beautiful in appearance, but were also most excellent in quality. 
Our notes taken at the time run thus :—Leaves crenated ; glands reniform ; flowers 
small. Fruit as large as those of Balgowan, in some cases roundish-ovate, in 
others rather depressed, with a well-defined suture. Skin almost wholly covered 
with dark red, the shaded parts showing a little watery or pale green ground¬ 
colour, while the most exposed parts are of a very deep purple-red, sometimes 
slightly speckled. Flesh greenish-white, red at the stone, full-flavoured, very 
juicy, rich, and sugary. The flavour is brisk, yet luscious, and altogether it is one 
of the very best Nectarines we have ever tasted.—T. Moore. 
CHATER’S NEW HOLLYHOCKS. 
JT is now very nearly thirty years ago since Mr. William Chater, of Saffron 
Walden, offered to the public and sent out the first selection of improved 
and named Hollyhocks—a flower which he, with so much honest pride, 
terms u one of our noblest garden plants.” At that time, Mr. Chater had 
taken up the work of the improvement at the point where it had been dropped 
by the late Mr. Charles Baron, and from that time onwards, sometimes assisted 
in the work by other intelligent and enterprising florists, and sometimes standing 
