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carry a seedling Fuchsia six miles as sixty, and the garden must be 

 out of the London smoke. As to the Society raising seedlings, I 

 think such a step a dereliction from the object of the Society, which 

 is to judge the merits of seedlings, not to produce and judge them 

 too. This proceeding would, I fear, be attended with such difficul- 

 ties, as I think our kind friend, when he penned his suggestion No. 1, 

 little dreamed of. It is with some little hesitation that I make these 

 remarks ; but I should be sorry to see an impracticable or unwise 

 step attempted ; and I am the more induced to state my dissent, see- 

 ing the favour with which the suggestion is held by our worthy and 

 laborious honorary Secretary. 



A Member. 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FRUITS. 



APPLES {continued from p. 40). 



8. Oslin. 



Synonyms : White Oslin, Arbroath Pippin. 



The fruit is below the middle size, roundish in form, slightly flat- 

 tened. Skin pale green, dotted all over with green and grey specks, 

 changing to a clear lemon colour when fully ripe. Stalk short, thick, 

 and inserted in a narrow cavity. Eye small, set in a small, shallow, 

 slightly plaited basin, with prominent segment. Flesh yellowish 

 white, crisp, juicy, and possessing a rich aromatic flavour. An ex- 

 cellent dessert fruit, ripening about the end of August. 



The Oslin is a favourite Scotch Apple, said to have originated at 

 Arbroath in Forfarshire. It is well suited for espaliers, or other 

 modes of dwarf training. 



9. Fearns Pippin. 



Synonyms : Ferris Pippin, Clifton Nonsuch. 

 Fruit roundish, oblate in form, and even in outline. Skin smooth 



and glossy, of a deep red when fully exposed to the sun, with a little 

 yellowish green near the stalk ; the whole surface sprinkled with 



