The nectarine is a fruit which will in general bear more extensive cultivation in America and which is to be especially recommended for dwarf fruit gardens.
Perhaps there were two or three species of tuberes, as Pliny says, and one of them which was grafted on plum trees was the nectarine (?
I have sought in vain for a proof that the nectarine existed in Italy in the time of ancient Rome.
It should be remarked that each variety of the nectarine has not derived its character from a corresponding variety of the peach.
So permanent are the characters thus suddenly acquired, that a nectarine produced by bud-variation has propagated itself by seed.
It is asserted[651] that the Boston nectarine was produced from a peach-stone, and this nectarine reproduced itself by seed.
Mr. Rivers states[653] that from stones of three distinct varieties of the peach he raised three varieties of nectarine; and in one of these cases nonectarine grew near the parent peach-tree.
Hunt's large tawny nectarine "originated from Hunt's small tawny nectarine, but not through seminal reproduction.
Now it is known that when a bud on a peach-tree has once borne a nectarine the same branch has in several instances gone on during successive years producing nectarines.
The varieties of the peach have largely increased in number since the Christian era, when from two to five varieties alone were known;[670] and the nectarine was unknown.
In another instance Mr. Rivers raised a nectarine from a peach, and in the succeeding generation another nectarine from this nectarine.
The varieties of the peach andnectarine run in parallel lines.
Most of the varieties both of the peach and nectarine reproduce themselves truly by seed.
Another hybrid from a sweet almond by the pollen of a nectarine produced during the first three years imperfect blossoms, but afterwards perfect flowers with an abundance of pollen.
The Elrouge Nectarine is also a native of our own, the name being the reverse of Gourle, a famous Nurseryman at Hogsden, in King Charles the Second's time, by whom it was raised.
The peach and nectarine are amongst the most delicious of our fruits, and are considered as varieties of the same species produced by cultivation.
The nectarine is said to have received its name from nectar, the particular drink of the gods.
She bit daintily into the juicy nectarine poised between finger and thumb, and watched me with a peculiar fixed smile, as if of admiration, on her pale face.
After luncheon--the flavour of its sliced nectarine (or is it of one that came later?
Sir James, who was busy at work with a syringe water-shooting the various insects that had affected a lodgment amongst his peach and nectarine trees.
The plagiary has a greater latitude of choice than we; and if he brings home a parsnip or turnip-top, when he could as easily have pocketed a nectarine or a pineapple, he must be a blockhead.
And moreover is cool, smooth, and firm as a nectarine gathered before sunrise.
Hearing which infectiously gay but quite unexpected sound, Miss Bilson stopped dead in the middle both of a nectarine and a sentence.
They took their frugal and repast, as their nature and the course of the world required; and seasoned with the nectarine juice of their good and refined intelligence.
Also, the flesh of the nectarine is firmer and has a stronger flavor than that of the peach.
The tropical fruit called the nectarine is really a variety of peach, but it differs from the common peach in that it has a smooth, waxy skin.
The varieties of the peach and the nectarine run in parallel lines.
Boston nectarine was produced from a peach-stone, and this nectarinereproduced itself by seed.
The peach and nectarine do not succeed equally well in the some soil: see Lindley 'Horticulture' page 351.
This view in itself is not very improbable; for the Mountaineer peach, which was raised by Knight from the red nutmeg-peach by pollen of the violette hative nectarine (10/54.
In England the new white nectarine was a seedling of the old white, and Mr. Rivers (10/34.
Hence we may confidently accept the common view that the nectarine is a variety of the peach, which may be produced either by bud-variation or from seed.
She peeled the nectarine leisurely--she seemed to enjoy it more than all the rest of her dinner.
But when the lady had finished her nectarine and dipped her slender fingers in the rose-water she got up--she had not smoked, she could not be Russian then.
If we accept the mutation theory of the origin of species--new species arising suddenly at a single step--the nectarine is a species in process of birth.
In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries the nectarine was called "nucipersica" because it resembled in smoothness and color of the outer skin as well as in size and shape, the walnut.
The nectarine is one of the most interesting phenomena in horticulture.
The two fruits are adapted to the same soil and climatic conditions and wherever the peach is grown, the world over, the nectarine is found.
A case is cited of a nectarine tree bearing a half-and-half fruit and subsequently a true peach.
A correspondent of the United States Department of Agriculture at Kashgar, British India, describes a nectarine grown there wanting "a hot but only a short summer.
That either peach or nectarine-trees may produce individual fruits half-nectarine and half-peach.
The peach produced in these bud-variations is a peach and nothing but a peach; the nectarine, a nectarine and nothing but a nectarine.
The nectarine from the peach, thus becomes as clear-cut a case of discontinuous variation as can be.
It is possible that sometime in the past the peach and the nectarine were crossed, the offspring showing no trace of the cross, and that now there is an occasional disassociation of the characters brought together by such crossing.
It is wholly a natural phenomenon, for no one has been able to cause the peach to produce the hairless form or the nectarine to bring forth a downy fruit.
This remarkable instance is from a tree of a nectarine raised from a stone in my own garden, which last autumn had several dozen of fruit on it, finely ripened.
Boil three or four laurel, peach, or nectarine leaves, in a full pint of cream, and strain it.
It is a useful practice to prime the peach and nectarine trees, and also the vines, as it invigorates the buds in the spring of the year.
Where peach and nectarine trees are managed with this paint, they are very rarely either hide-bound or attacked by insects.
There was a nectarine in its hand when we found it, and the naughty brick that slipped from the coping beneath its foot and so caused its death, lies now under the wall for the King to see.
Hie after the Prince and tell him y'are the first fruits of his nectarine tree.
Everlasting spring lives in the blossoms of a nectarine lip, and eternal winter dwells upon the vinegarish, along which no rill of blood ever strays.
Among the ladies, there are two orders of lips--the nectarine and the vinegarish.
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