. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1064 therefore is less g planted on a couin: well on almond st<«' to peaches in qual has been given to t ties, and from the standard of excelli peiches do NECTARINE. peaches. The most prominent in 1 ton, Downtou, Hardwit-k, Early Newington, Fitmasi Orange, Stanwiek,
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1064 therefore is less g planted on a couin: well on almond st<«' to peaches in qual has been given to t ties, and from the standard of excelli peiches do NECTARINE. peaches. The most prominent in 1 ton, Downtou, Hardwit-k, Early Newington, Fitmasi Orange, Stanwiek, Humboldt, Lord Napier, Advance, Elnige. In color, size and season. Nectarines vary as peaches do. See also Peach, and ForeitKj. L. H. B. The Nectarine is grown in California almost exclu- sively for drying and canning, and even for these uses is but of minor importance. compared with peaches for canning, the product of Nectarines is only about one-eighth of one per cent that of the peach, and for drying only about one per cent that of the peach. The varieties grown for both canning and drying are the white varieties, because they do not color the syrup in canning, and because when sulfurcd they make a beau- tiful, amber-colored, translucent product. E. .J. W:cKSON. NEGRO'S HEAD. Unusual name for palm, Plii/lflcphtts macrocarpa. -nut NfilLLIA (named after Patrick NeiU, at the begin- ning of the nineteenth century secretary of the Cale- donian Horticultural Society at Edinburgh). SosAce(f. Small, deciduous shrubs, with alternate, stipulate, usu- ally 3-lobed Ivs. and rather inconspicuous whitish fls. in simple or panicled racemes at the end of the branches. The one species in cultivation is not hardy North; it requires protection even in the Middle States, and is often killed to the ground in severe winters, but usually vigorous young shoots spring up and bloom and fruit in the same season. On account of its handsome bright green foliage it may be used as a border plant for
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