stone, to which it firmly adheres. Juice rich and highly flavoured. Ripe the beginning of September. This Nectarine appears to have been known in this country above sixty years, but by whom introduced is not certain. It was cultivated by the late John and Grosvenor Perfect, at Pontefract, fifty years ago. A tree of it was growing in the garden of W. S. Stanhope, Esq., at Cannon Hall, near Barnsley, in 1788, which had been furnished from the above gentlemen's nursery, and from fruit produced in that year the above description was written. I have never met with it since, but no doubt it is in many gentlemen's collections in the county of York. 27. SCARLET NEWINGTON. Trans. Vol. v. p. 541. G. Lindl. in Hort. Newington. Langley, p. 102. t. 19. f. 1. Miller, 3. Hill, p. 313. Switzer, p. 95. Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large. Fruit rather above the middle size, of a roundish figure. Skin pale amber next the wall, but of a bright red on the sunny side, and marbled with a deeper colour, occasionally intermixed with a little thin russet. Flesh firm, pale yellowish white, but very red at the stone, to which it closely adheres. Juice sweet, brisk, and of a most delicious vinous flavour. Stone small, not deeply rugged. Ripe the beginning and middle of September. This ripened at Twickenham in 1727, on a south wall, July 10. O. S., or July 21. N. S. The Scarlet Newington Nectarine is undoubtedly the Newington of Miller, Hill, and Switzer; but so many others, of a similar character, have sprung since their time, that it becomes necessary some appellation should be prefixed to them, in order that we may know of which sort we are speaking. This, the Tawny Newington, and the Red Roman, are the very highest flavoured nectarines in our collections, especially if the fruit is suffered to remain upon the tree till it becomes shrivelled. 28. TAWNY NEWINGTON. Tawny. G. Lindl. Plan of an Orchard, 1796. Leaves doubly serrated, without glands. Flowers large. Fruit pretty large, somewhat ovate. Skin yellowish or tawny-coloured, a little mottled or marbled with dull red or orange on the sunny side. Flesh firm, very pale yellow, or yellowish white, but very red at the stone, to which it closely adheres. Juice plentiful, sugary, and of the most delicious flavour. Stone broad, thick, not deeply rugged. Ripe the beginning and middle of September. The wood of this and of the Scarlet Newington is longer jointed, longer in its growth, and more flexuose than the other Newingtons; in the quarters of the nursery the maiden plants grow in a diverging direction, the others are shorter jointed, and their growth erect. A Selection of Nectarines for a small Garden in the Southern and Midland Counties of England. Northern Counties of England, and Southern of Scotland. Brinion 8 Pitmaston Orange - 15 In the Highlands of Scotland the south and southeast aspects alone can be appropriated to Nectarines with any chance of success. Propagation of Peaches and Nectarines. Peaches and Nectarines are propagated by budding them upon the Muscle and the Pear-plum stock; the latter being made use of for those kinds which are among nurserymen termed French Peaches, and which, generally speaking, are by far the best in our collections. Those budded upon the Pear-plum have likewise an advantage over many of the others which are budded upon the Muscle, in being much less affected by mildew, particularly those kinds which have glandular leaves. The Brompton Stock has also been introduced, and many thousands of peaches and nectarines have been budded upon it, to the serious injury of every one who has purchased them. What has been said upon this subject, when treating of apricots, will, I trust, be sufficient to warn all persons from purchasing trees, whatever their appearance may be, unless they have been propagated upon either the Muscle or the Pear-plum. — These are the stocks on which we can place a firm reliance for the production of sound trees: the other ought to be banished from every nursery in the kingdom. In budding peaches and nectarines for dwarfs, good clean stocks should be chosen, and if Muscles, they should be worked the first summer after they have been quartered out as the maiden plants thus raised seldom exceed two inches in circumference, and if not so much the plants will be the better. The Pear-plum need not be budded till the second summer after quartering, as it seldom acquires a sufficient thickness the first year. When standards are wanted, the best way is to select the strongest stocks, planting them on good and wellprepared ground by themselves, and when they have stood two years, cutting them down in the month of February close to the ground. As they grow up in the spring, the young shoot should be singled off to one, leaving the best, and shortening the lateral shoots in the summer, to about six inches as they are produced. If the plants grow well, and are properly attended to, they will the first year attain a height of at least six feet: they may the next summer be budded standard high, and the stems will be clean, straight, and handsome. In planting out trees for training, young plants, or those called maiden plants, should be made choice of for the purpose, being far preferable to those which have been headed down, and stood two years in the quarters of the nursery observing in all cases, without exception, that the bud should stand outwards, and the wounded part where the stock has been headed down, inwards, or next the wall. By this means the wound will readily and effectually heal over, while if otherwise exposed to the sun, it would crack and injure the stock, thus rendering the tree frequently unsound. When the plants are headed down, care must be taken also that the cut is made at the back, leaving the wound facing the wall, and in all subsequent prunings the wounds should be concealed in the same manner. Where the branches are horizontal, or where they are trained in a diagonal direction, the cuts may be either at the back, or underneath, facing the ground, so that they be not visible to a person standing in front of the tree. When this method of pruning is pursued without deviation, and the trees properly trained, the wounds will not only be excluded from the action of the sun's rays, but the trees will have a neat and workmanlike appearance. Pruning and Training of Peaches and Nectarines. When the young plant of either Peach or Nectarine is removed from the nursery to the place of its destination, it must be headed down at the proper time, in the manner directed under the head of Propagation, and its treatment in all respects must be like that of the Apricot, both in its pruning and training, till the head is completely furnished. One principal object in the management of the Peach, must be to keep up a constant succession of young wood in every part of the tree, for unless this be accomplished the crop of fruit must be partial and defective. To effect this, the annual shortening of the young wood is perfectly calculated; but the manner in which this ought to be performed has by no means been fixed upon one certain principle: the various methods laid down and insisted upon by writers being greatly at variance with each other, they leave the inexperienced gardener in a dilemma as to which course he should pursue. Some of these are so barbarous and absurd, that it has always appeared to me an act of folly in any one making the attempt to copy them. A few of these have been exhibited in the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick, in contrast to some very excellent specimens in that department. This, on a small scale, has no doubt been of advantage; because the authors of those fantastical trees have been pointed out at the time of their exhibition, which has in some cases, no doubt, served as a stumbling-block for others to avoid, whilst the trees under a judicious mode of management have held out examples worthy of imitation. As I have observed before, the principal object to be kept in view is a constant succession of young wood throughout every part of the tree: this is to be effected |