. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Dkoember 5.] THE COTTAGE 145 supjjni't of oiu' opinion, Imt to insert them would exceed our limited space. But whether the nectarine was known or unknown to the ancients, it is quite certain that it was not introduced here before the end of the 16th centmy; for none of oin- oldest ^Titers, though they mention fully the peach, take any notice of the nectarine; and Parkinson, in 1029, is the first to speak of the Kuuipen^ica, or " Nectorin" add- ing, " tliougli they have been with ns not many years, yet have they been known
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Dkoember 5.] THE COTTAGE 145 supjjni't of oiu' opinion, Imt to insert them would exceed our limited space. But whether the nectarine was known or unknown to the ancients, it is quite certain that it was not introduced here before the end of the 16th centmy; for none of oin- oldest ^Titers, though they mention fully the peach, take any notice of the nectarine; and Parkinson, in 1029, is the first to speak of the Kuuipen^ica, or " Nectorin" add- ing, " tliougli they have been with ns not many years, yet have they been known in Italy to Matthiolus (who died iu 1577), and others before him. They knew no other than the Yellow nectorin, but we, at this day, do know five several sorts of nectorins — the ]\Iusk, the Roman Red, the Bastard Red, the Yellow, the Green, and the ; The nectarine belongs to the Natural Order of Almond- worts (DrupaceEB), and to the 1'2-Icosamlria l-Monogynia of Linnaeus. Modern botanists have formed a new genus for it and the peach, to which they have given the name of Persica. Whether it was right, for some trivial difi'erenoe, to separate these fraits fi-om the almond, Amygdalus, admits of great doubt; but upon what gToimd it can be defended calling the nectarine a species {Persica Icevis), when it is notorious that the same twig sometimes beai's both peaches and nectarines, and at others a fruit half nectarine and half peach, we have yet to learn. It is equally notorious, that even when in bloom the nectarine cannot be distingmshed fi-om the peach by any specific mtu'ks of Fhixged-lippeu {Cataseliimjiinhi iutum).— Annals de Omul., t. 231.—Paxton's Floirer Garden, Yo].i., p. 1'24.—Catasetmn is derived from hata, downward, and seta, a bristle, referring to the position of the horn-like processes on the column; Jlmbriatum, fringed, refers to the fii'inge-like edges of the labellum, or lip, of the flower. The genus fmnishes the name o
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