Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1109] Pallas, Fl. Rossica, p. 13.

[1110] Shuft aloo is, according to Royle (Ill. Him. p. 204), the Persian name for the nectarine.

[1111] Ledebour, Fl. Ross., i. p. 3. See p. 228, the subsequent opinion of Koch.

[1112] Bosc, Dict. d’Agric., ix. p. 481.

[1113] Thouin, Ann. Mus., viii. p. 433.

[1114] Royle, Ill. Him., p. 204.

[1115] Bunge, Enum. Pl. Chin., p. 23.

[1116] Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 199.

[1117] Thunberg, Fl. Jap., 199.

[1118] The accounts about China which I have consulted do not mention the nectarine; but as it exists in Japan, it is extremely probable that it does also in China.