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, who reported as follows :— "The fruit 

 weighed 3i lb. ; shape conical ; colour pale orange ; pips rather 

 large, flat, depressed in the centre, the scales covering one-third 

 of their surface ; the intermediate space between the pips forming 

 spiral ridges round the fruit. Flesh yellowish, solid, tender, very 

 juicy and free from fibre, brisk, sweet, and well-flavoured. A 

 better late Pine than the Queen." 



PEARS.— From the Rev. J. Hotshe, F.H.S. : Hnyshe's 

 Victoria and Huyshe's Bergamot Pears. It was found that 

 Huy she's Bergamot was a very excellent, rich-flavoured, buttery 

 Pear of first-rate quality, superior to the Victoria, which was also 

 good, but scarcely in condition. — From Mr. Spencek, F.H.S., 

 Bovvood: specimens of G-Iou Moreean, from standards, which were, 

 as such, considered exceedingly fine ; they were large and well 

 browned with russet ; buttery and rich, as is generally the case 

 when good specimens of this variety, obtained from standards, 

 assume a brownish russet colour. — From M. De Jonghe, of 

 Brussels: Henriette Bouvier ; a good variety, but the fruit had 

 suffered from carriage. Alexandre Lamhre, from the same 

 gentleman, proved scarcely second-rate,— From Mr. D. Ferguson, 

 F.H.S. : the Chaumontel, gi'own on various stocks, and in dif- 

 ferent aspects ; the largest was grown on the Quince stock and an 

 east wall ; the next largest on the same kind of stock, but on a 

 west wall. Those on the Pear stock from a south wall were 

 smaller; and smaller still those on the Pear stock from a 

 standard. The fruit were unripe. 



APPLES.— E. A. Beande, Esq., F.H.S., sent, from an espalier 

 in his garden, specimens produced on grafts 

 Portugal, under the names of Macao d'Espallis a 

 The Committee considered them identical with the Reinette du 

 Canada. This sort has been long cultivated in Portugal, the 

 Ionian Isles, and other places in the south of Europe. Mr. 

 Forbes, a Collector in the service of the Society, sent from Por- 

 tugal, previous to his embarkation thence fpr Eastern Africa, 

 cuttings from an Apple, without name, which on fruiting in the 

 Garden of the Society, proved to be the Reinette du Canada; as 

 did likewise cuttings received under the name of Mela Janurea, 

 from the Ionian Isles.— From R. T. Head, Esq., The Briars, 

 Alphington, Exeter: a Seedling Apple, called the Briars Gilli- 



