. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . ornamental forms of the Peach tree: 1665 ( 10:969; 13:1299, 1852:221);white-fld., dark-fld., etc.; purple-lvd.; variegated-lvd.;dwarfs. One of the best of these fancy forms is 2002. Dwart almonds (XK). Prunus nana at left; P. Japonica in middle
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . ornamental forms of the Peach tree: 1665 ( 10:969; 13:1299, 1852:221);white-fld., dark-fld., etc.; purple-lvd.; variegated-lvd.;dwarfs. One of the best of these fancy forms is 2002. Dwart almonds (XK). Prunus nana at left; P. Japonica in middle; P. triloba at right. Nos. 37-39. Var. laevis, Gray (Amygdalus Pirsica necturlna,Ait. Persica llevis, DC. Prunus Persica, var. nectu-rlna, Maxim.). Nectarine. Fig. 1404. Fruit smooth,usually smaller: Ivs. usually more strongly Nectarine has sprung from the Peach, both throughseed and bud-variation. There are two types, as in thePeach: clingstones or brugnons {Persica kevis ofRisso), and freestones (Persica violacea of Risso).The Nectarine is not generally cultivated in this coun-try, although it is popular in California. Var. platycdrpa, Bailey (Persica platycdrpa, De-caisne). Flat Peach, or Peen-to. Fig. 1660. Muchflattened endwise, and scarcely thicker than the China. 1870-1:111. Trans. Lond. Hort. :512. —Grown in the southern states, where it hasgiven rise to various globular Peaches. The Peen-tooriginated in 1869, with P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.,from seeds sent from Australia,
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