The Nectorin is a tree of no great bignesse, most usually lesser then the Peach tree, his body and elder boughes being whitish, the younger branches very red, whereon grow narrow long greene leaves, so like unto Peach leaves, that none can well distinguish them, unlesse it be in this, that they are somewhat lesser: the blossomes are all reddish, as the Peach, but one of a differing fashion from all the other, as I shall shew you by and by: the fruit that followeth is smaller, rounder, and smoother than Peaches, without any cleft on the side, and without any douny cotton or freeze at all; and herein is like unto the outer greene rinde of the Wallnut, whereof as I am perswaded it tooke the name, of a fast and firme meate, and very delicate in taste, especially the best kindes, with a rugged stone within it, and a bitter kernell. The Muske Nectorin, so called, because it being a kinde of the best red Nectorins, both smelleth and eateth as if the fruit were steeped in Muske: some thinke that this and the next Romane Nectorin are all one. The Romane red Nectorin, or cluster Nectorin, hath a large or great purplish blossome, like unto a Peach, reddish at the bottome on the outside, and greenish within: the fruit is of a fine red colour on the outside, and groweth in clusters, two or three at a joynt together, of an excellent good taste. The bastard red Nectorin hath a smaller or pincking blossome, more like threads then leaves, neither so large nor open as the former, and yellowish within at the bottome: the fruit is red on the outside, and groweth never but one at a joynt; it is a good fruit, but eateth a little more rawish then the other, even when it is full ripe. The yellow Nectorin is of two sorts, the one an excellent fruit, mellow, and of a very good rellish; the other hard, and no way comparable to it. The greene Nectorin, great and small; for such I have seene abiding constant, although both planted in one ground: they are both of one goodnesse, and accounted with most to be the best rellished Nectorin of all others. The white Nectorin is said to bee differing from the other, in that it will bee more white on the outside when it is ripe, then either the yellow or greene: but I have not yet seene it. The Use of Nectorins. The fruit is more firme then the Peach, and more delectable in taste; and is therefore of more esteeme, and that worthily." [174] Darwin _Ans. and Pls. Domest._ 2nd Ed. =1=:357-365. 1893. [175] Bretschneider E. _Bot. Explor. in China_ =2=:860. 1898. [176] _Gard. and For._ =1=:153. 1888. [177] Bretschneider E. _Bot. Explor. in China_ =2=:860. 1898. [178] _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ No. =115=:940. 1915 [179] _U. S. D. A. Plant Immigrants_ No. =72=:516. 1912. [180] _Prunus Davidiana alba_ Bean _Garden_ =50=:165. 1896; _Persica Davidiana alba_ Carrière _Rev. Hort._ 76. 1872; _Prunus Davidiana flore alba_ Wittmack Gartenfl. =44=:129. 1895. [181] _Jour. Agr. Research_ =1=:147-177. 1913.