The Nectarine.—This, it is allowed by all writers, is certainly a child of cultivation: there being no wild plant from which it could be derived, except the almond. It is therefore a collateral branch with, or rather of, the peach: of this no better proof can be given, than the circumstance that nectarines are sometimes produced by a peach tree.
The Orange.—This endless family of fruits it is probable had the small but useful wild lime for its progenitor. The monstrous shaddock, citrons of all shapes and sizes, oranges and lemons, are all varieties, obtained in the course of long cultivation.
(To be concluded in our next.)
THE GATHERER.
"I am but a Gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff."—Wotton.
TO CHLOE, AT SIXTY.
Those teeth, as white as orient pearls