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From: seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian)
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Subject: Re: Nectarine vs. Peach - the real answer!
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 17:36:05 EDT
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	Well, after seeing all the articles on the net and reading my
mail I was fairly convinced that a nectarine was a cross between a 
peach and a plum. But it didn't seem right in my mind. Nectarines don't
have skin anything like a plum. They're more like fuzzless peaches. And
they certainly taste more like peaches than plums.
	Then I got this mail:

>From: ihnp4!bbncc5!bbnccv!bbncc5!keesan (Morris M. Keesan)
Subject: Re: Nectarine vs Peach

>I was told as a child that a nectarine is a hybrid cross between a peach and a
>plum.  I was about to write telling you this, and decided to check my
>dictionary before making a fool of myself.  My Webster's Ninth New Collegiate
>says  

     >nectarine (1611): a peach with a smooth-skinned fruit that is a frequent
     >somatic mutation of the normal peach; also : its fruit.

>I was very surprised, particularly at the date.  I thought nectarines were a
>much newer invention.
>Morris M. Keesan

	So it seems that most of you are wrong! And I checked my trusty
Concise Columbia Encyclopedia and this is what they said:

nectarine: name for a tree (Prunus persica nectarina) of the Rose family
and for its fruit, a smooth skinned variety of the peach. In appearance,
culture, and care the nectarine tree is almost identical to the peach
tree. Occasionally a nectarine tree will produce peaches, and a peach
tree, nectarines.

	Obviously, common knowledge is faulty in this regard. Thanks
for all the responses and I hope I didn't upset anyone's world by
revealing the nectarine secret.

Sharon Badian
ihnp4!mtgzz!seb

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we got to move these refrigerators,
we got to move these color tv's...


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