THE VIOLET N ECTA RINE .
Violet. Hitt’s Treatise, ed. 2 , p. 312.
Violette hâtive. Noisette, Manuel, p. 483. G. Lindley in
Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 522. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 34,
and of the Nurseries.
Lord Selsey’s Elruge. Hort. Cat. no. 25.
Large Scarlet, of some Collections.
Early Violet. Knight in Hort. Trans.
Petite Violette hâtive. Duhamel, Traité, vol. i. p. 26, t. 14,
/ . 2 .
This excellent Nectarine is commonly cultivated
under its French name : we do not, however, approve
of using a foreign nomenclature when we
have an old-established name of our own. I t is not
unfrequently sold for the Red Roman, a very different
fruit.
Ripens from the end of August to the middle of
September ; and deserves cultivation on account of
its excellent flavour and great beauty.
A large Elruge Nectarine, described by M r. John
Bowers, in the 5th volume of the Horticultural Society’s
Transactions, page 523, as growing in a
fruiting house in Lord Selsey’s Garden, at West
Dean, in Sussex, has been subsequently ascertained
to be this variety.
Leaves crenated, with reniform glands.
F lowers small, bright red.
Fruit rgther larger than that of other Nectarines,