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the trees exposed to the weather, to 
thoroughly ripen their new wood. 
So great a similarity pervades the 
varieties of the Nectarine that it is 
most difficult to distinguish correctly 
between them, from appearance alone, 
and such as the Elruge, Newington, and 
Violette Hative, are often obtained in¬ 
differently one for the other; the fol¬ 
lowing list contains all that are really 
worth growing, and their several cha¬ 
racters are explained as accurately as 
circumstances will permit. 
Due du Telliers. A large handsome 
pale green and red variety, resem¬ 
bling the Elruge in flavour; the flesh 
separates from the stone, or, as it'is 
called, melts ; ripens from the end of 
August to the beginning of September. 
The leaves, which assist greatly in 
distinguishing the several kinds, are 
crenated with reniform glands. Syn. 
Due de Tello, Du Telliers, Du Tillys. 
Downton. An excellent variety, with 
large, full flavoured, pale green . and 
deep red fruit; ripens from the middle 
to the end of August. Elesh melting; 
leaves resembling the last. 
Elruge. One of the best medium-sized 
fruit, very rich in flavour, pale green 
and red; ripening from the end of 
August, to the middle of September. 
Elesh melting, white almost to the 
stone; leaves like the last. A good 
forcing variety. Syn. Anderson’s 
Claremont, Common Elruge, Oat- 
land’s, Spring Grove. 
Imperatrice. Large, deep red, fine 
flavoured fruit, ripe by the beginning 
of September. Elesh melting; leaves 
crenated, with reniform glands. Tree 
hardy, and good bearer. 
Murrey. A rather small but excellent 
flavoured variety, with pale green 
and deep red fruit, which ripens about 
the end of August. . Elesh melting; 
leaves like the last. Syn. Murry, 
Black Murrey, Murry’s Black. 
Newington. This variety is very gene¬ 
rally grown; it has large, deep, red, 
rich flavoured fruit, which ripens 
through the first fortnight of Sep¬ 
tember. The flesh adheres to the 
stone; and the leaves are serrated and 
without glands. It is hardy and a 
good bearer. Syn. Anderdon’s, An- 
derdon’s Bound, Erench Newington, 
North’s Large, Old Newington, Bed 
Boman, Bough Boman, Bound, Scarlet 
Newington, Smith’s Newington, Sion 
Hill. 
Newington, Early. In appearance this 
resembles the last; it is also a ‘cling¬ 
stone,’ but superior to it in flavour, and 
a week or ten days earlier. It will 
occasionally come some shades darker, 
and larger than the previous variety. 
Syn. Black, Early Black, Early Black 
Newington, Lucomb’s Seedling, Lu- 
comb’s Black, New Dark Newington, 
New Early Newington. 
Newington, Tawny. A very good variety 
with yellow and brownish red, large, 
full-flavoured fruit; ripens from the 
beginning to the middle of September. 
Elesh clingstone; serrated without 
glands. 
Peterborough. Only desirable for its 
lateness; the fruit is small, green, 
melting, but deficient in flavour; is 
not ripe till the beginning of October. 
Leaves crenated, with reniform 
glands. 
Pitmaston Orange. An excellent kind 
with large melting, rich flavoured, 
orange and deep red fruit; ripening 
from the end of August to the begin¬ 
ning of the next month; the leaves 
are crenated with globose glands. Syn. 
Williams’s Orange, Williams’s Seed- 
ling. 
Boman. A universally esteemed variety. 
It may be distinguished from the 
Newington by its leaves being cre¬ 
nated with reniform glands, instead 
of serrated without glands, and 
its greenish-brown fruit; from the 
Yiolette Hative in being later, as it 
is not ripe till near the middle of 
September, and by its deeper green 
fruit; the same marks will also dis¬ 
tinguish it from the Elruge. It is 
besides a clingstone, which will further 
the distinction between it and the 
two last. 
Tawny, Hunt’s. A good early variety, 
being ripe by the middle of August; 
I the fruit is of a medium size, brownish 
