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TH E COMMON ELRU G E N ECTA RINE.
Elruge. G. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 551. Not
o f Miller.
Common Elruge. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 23.
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The name of Elruge Nectarine has long found a
place in the lists of English fruit-trees, and is supposed
to be the anagram of Guríes, a Nurseryman
by whom it was first either raised or sold. But
it is singular, th a t from some unexplained cause,
the kind to which the name was originally applied,
and which is described by Miller, has been almost
lost from cultivation, while th a t which is now re presented
has usurped its place. This fact was first
pointed out by Mr. George Bindley, in the Transactions
of the Horticultural Society, and has been
since universally admitted. Hence, there are two
Elruge Nectarines in our gardens, one called
Miller’s Elruge, and the other the Common Elruge.
This last is the subject of the following remarks.
I t is to be suspected, that all the descriptions
of modern authors refer to this rather than to
Miller’s.
I t is probable th a t the Claremont Nectarine
is a synonym of th is ; and there is reason to
believe, that the Vermash figured by Hooker in his
Pomona Londinensis, is also a representation of the
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