32 REPORTS OF THE FRUIT 



feet above tbe level of the sea, from which it is distant about 40 • 

 miles ; the ground slopes to the south-east about one foot in ten, and 

 behind the garden it rises regularly to the height of 900 feet ; the \ 



rain for the last five years averaged 33 inches ; and during that 

 period the thermometer only once fell as low as 10°. The soil , 

 is loamy, 6 to 15 inches deep, on clayey slate, and is considered ■ 

 poor for the district. The trees which produced the fruit are ; 

 standards, from 30 to 100 years old, and many of them much ' 

 decayed ; they have not been pruned for many years. The 

 ground is usually cropped with vegetables, but never trenched, 

 nor deeply dug. The varieties recognised were : No. 1, Gloria 

 Mundi; 3. Blenheim Pippin; 4, Hall Door; 5, Hoary Morn- 

 ing; 6, King of the Pippins; 10, Wyken Pippin; the others 

 were unknown. No. 12 was remarkable for a distinct broad , 

 stripe of deep crimson, extending on one side from the stalk to, 

 the eye. The Apples were fair specimens, but not so rich as I 

 those of the same kinds grown in climates not on the whole so 

 mild, or where the winters are much colder, but the summers 

 hotter. — From C. Strickland, Esq., FH.S : Specimens of 

 Apples, grown at Boynton, in Yorkshire, on chalk gravel, within 

 three miles of the sea. No. 1, known in the locality as the ; 

 Lemon Pippin, was not the lemon-shaped Apple known by that , 

 name near London ; it was stated to be, though not large, a very .. 

 useful kitchen Apple for spring, as it melts well, and has less 

 acid and rather more flavour than Dumelow's Seedling. No. 4, ' 

 the Eibston Pippin, from a standard, was not of first-rate quality; , 

 but it was remarked, that from a wall in the same garden this ■ 

 well known variety is very fine and good. No. 6, Scarlet Non- ■ 

 pareil, grown where the soil is thin and poor, upon chalk, were ] 

 of indifferent quality. No. 8, called in Yorkshire the Warner ^ 

 Apple, is apparently a sound keeper. For the others, which , 

 were not recognised, it was considered that better kinds ' 

 might be substituted. — From Mr. Edmonds, F.H.S.: fin» \ 

 specimens of the Hoary Morning, a handsome, much- striped " 

 kitchen apple. 



Mr. Paek, Grove Hall, East Retford, sent a dish of Old Col- . 

 mar, or d'Auch Pears, of which it was remarkable that one of - 

 them proved good, the others not. " 



BRUSSELS SPROUTS.— From Mr. Judd, Althorp Gardens, ■ 

 Northampton ; specimens of his variety of Bmssels Spronts. Of : 

 this vegetable he had been in the habit of saving seed for many * 



