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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
September  25,  1902, 
Peaches  and  Nectarines. 
Their  Classification  and  Selection  of  Varieties. 
The  different  varieties  of  the  Peach,  distinguished  by  a  downy 
skin,  and  Nectarine,  known  by  a  smooth  skin,  are  not  readily 
defined  from  the  appearance  of  the  fruit  alone.  The  following 
classification  is  that  adopted  by  the  late  Dr.  Hogg,  LI/.D.,  in 
his  standard  work  on  the  fruits  and  fruit  trees  of  Great  Britain — 
the  well  known  and  popular  “  Fruit  Manual,”  and  is  founded  on 
I.  — The  flowers  being  either  large  or  small. 
II.  — The  leaves  being  serrated  without  glands,  or  having  either 
globose  or  reniform  glands  at  their  base. 
III.  — The  fruit  having  either  flesh  which  parts  readily  frojn 
the  stone,  or  flesh  clinging  to  the  stone. 
The  flowers  distinguished  as  large  or  small,  in  some  cases  nearly 
approach  each  other  in  respect  to  size,  but  the  small  flowers  have 
the  petals  more  of  an  oval  shape  than  the  large,  and  their  colour 
is  different.  The  large  flowers  are  deeply  coloured  at  the  bass, 
whiLst  their  disc  becomes  nearly  white  towards  the  margin.  The 
small  flowers,  on  the  contrary,  have  their  petals  more  deeply 
coloured  at  the  margin  than  they  are  in  the  middle. 
The  (/lands,  if  any,  are  situated  at  the  base  of  the  blade  of 
the  leaf  or  on  the  petiole,  but  the  distinctions  between  globose 
and  reniform  are  not  always  obvious,  yet  the  globose  glands  are 
somewhat  pedicellate,  and  raised  above  the  margin  of  the  leaf, 
whilst  in  the  reniform  or  kiclney-sliaped  glands  they  are  usually 
indented  in  the  margin. 
The  term  freestone  is  applied  to  fruit  with  a  melting  flesh  or 
that  parting  readily  from  the  stone  when  the  fruit  is  halved  ; 
whilst  the  term  clingstone  is  applied  to  a  fruit  that  may  not  be 
so  halved,  from  the  flesh  adhering  or  clinging  to  the  stone. 
PEACHES. 
I. — Flowers  Large  (Fig.  1,  A). 
Leaves  without  (/lands  (Fig.  1,  D), 
A.  Freestone.  NODLESSE  (Fig.  2'. 
Albatross 
Dymond 
Early  Anne 
Early  Savoy 
Early  Victoiia 
Early  York 
Gladstone 
Hemskerk 
Mai  ta 
Montauban 
Noblesse 
Princesse  Mali? 
Pucelle  <le  Malines 
Raymaekers 
Red  Magdalene 
Sea  Eagle 
Sulhamstead 
Vanguard 
While  Magdalene 
White  Nutmeg. 
B.  C  inpst  ne.  Newingtons  (Fig.  3\ 
Early  Newington 
Old  Newington 
Pavie  Bonneuil. 
Leaves  with  round  glands  (Fig.  4). 
A.  Freestone.  Mignonne 
A  Bee 
Acton  Scott 
Alexander  (semi-clingstone) 
Alexandra 
Barrington 
Belle  Bauce 
Early  Admirable 
Early  Alfred 
Eaily  Grosse  Mignonne 
Grosse  Mignonne 
Hale’s  Early 
Large  Early  Mignorny 
Leopold  tbe  First 
Mignonne  Dubarle 
Mountaineer 
Princess  of  Wales 
Rivers’  E..rly  York 
Royal  Ascot 
Springrove. 
B.  Clingstone. 
N  one. 
Leaves  with  kidney-shaped  glands  (Fig.  5). 
A.  Freestone.  Purples. 
Amsden  (semi-clingstone) 
Belle  Imperiale 
Dr.  Hogg 
Early  Beatrice 
Early  Rivers 
Early  Purple 
Early  Silver 
Flat  China 
Honey 
Lord  Palmerston 
Nectarine  Peach 
Prince  Eugene 
Red  Nutmeg 
Sanguinole 
Shanghii 
Waterloo  (semi-clingstone) 
Yellow  Admirable. 
B.  Clingstone.  Pompoxe'. 
Pavie  de  Pompone. 
II. — Flowers  Small  (Fig.  1,  C). 
Jjeaves  without  glands. 
A.  Freestone.  GEORGES. 
Early  Tillotson 
Royal  Charlotte 
Royal  George 
Stirling  Ca-tle. 
B.  Clingstone. 
None. 
A. 
Leaves  with 
Freestone.  Chancellors. 
Belle  Chev  reuse 
Be  le  de  la  Cr<  ix 
C.ianccl  or 
Comet 
Early  Louise 
Golden  Eagle 
Lady  Palmerston 
Magdala 
Prince  of  Wales 
kidney -shaped  glands. 
Beine  des  Vergers 
Rosanna 
Salwey 
Sieulle 
.  Small  Mignonne. 
I’.  Clingstone.  Catiieiiin'ES.  ’ 
Catherine 
I  u  comparable. 
Fig.  i. — Flowers  of  Peaches-  Leaf  without  Glands 
A,  Large  Flower—  Grouse  Mignonne  Peach. 
B,  Intermediate  Flower,  neither  large  nor  small— Alexander  Peach. 
C,  Small  Flower— Royal  George  Peach. 
1),  Leaf  of  Peach  without  glands;  a,  serrated  edge;  b,  glandless  petiole. 
NECTARINES.— I —Flowers 
A.  Freestone.  Hardwicks. 
Advance 
Bowden 
liardwieke 
iArge. — Leaves  without  glands. 
Hunt’s  Large  Tawny. 
B.  Clingstone.  NEWINGTON’S. 
Early  Newington 
Old  Newington. 
A. 
A. 
Leaves  with  round  glands. 
Freestone.  PlTMASTONS. 
Humboldt 
Pitmaston  Orange 
Pineapple. 
Spencer. 
B.  Clingstone 
None. 
Jjeaves  with  kidney -/h aped  glands. 
kreestone.  Stan  wicks. 
Albert 
Byron 
Darwin 
Fairchild’s  Early 
Lord  Napier 
Rivers'  Elruge 
Rivers’  Orange 
Rivers’  AY  Lite 
Stanwick 
White. 
B.  Clingstone.  ROMANS, 
Roman. 
II. — Flowers  Small. — Leaves  without  glands. 
A.  Freestone.  Tawna’S.  I  B.  Clingstone. 
Hunt's  Tawny.  ]  None. 
Leaves  with  round  glands. 
A.  Freestone.  Galande*. 
American  Newington 
Bello  de  Doue 
Bellegard  i 
Boudin 
Canai  y 
Cooledge’s  Favourite 
Crawford's  Early 
Ciimioa  Galan  '.e 
Dagmar 
Desse  Tardive 
Early  Albert 
Exquisite 
George  the  Fourth 
Golden  Rathripe 
Greg  ry's  Late 
Incomparable  en  Beaule 
Late  Admirable 
Morrisania 
Nivette 
Osprey 
Stump-the- World 
Teton  de  Venus 
Van  Zandt's  Superb 
Violette  ILdtive 
Walbuiton  Admirable 
Washington  Rathripe 
Yellow'  Alberge. 
B.  Clingstone. 
None. 
A. 
Leaves  with  round  glands 
Freestone.  Bostons. 
Albert  Victor 
Boston 
Prince  of  Wales 
Stanwick  Elrage. 
B.  Clingstone. 
None. 
A. 
Leaves  with 
Freestone.  VlOLETTES. 
Balgowan 
Dante 
Down  ton 
Due  du  Telliers 
Elruge 
Impdratiiee 
Late  Melting 
M urrey 
kidney -shaped  glands. 
Newton 
Peterborough 
Victoria 
Violette  Gross? 
Violette  Hative. 
B.  Clingstone  GOLDEN’S. 
Golden. 
(To  bo  continued.) 
