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to the Fellows, and the remainder sent to market ; as also have 

 been the Grapes from the pot vines, excepting those new or little 

 known varieties required by the Fruit Committee. 



The Grapes in the Curvilinear Vinery are now ripe, and some 

 of them have been cut and sold. The Pears and Plums in the 

 Orchard House have, for the most part, borne very good crops ; 

 as also have the established plants of Peaches and Nectarines. 



A good stock of Vines has been grown this season for fruit- 

 ing next year, and a considerable number of other kinds of fruits 

 budded and grafted to add to the various collections. 



The Vines in the Conservatory would well repay a visit to 

 Chiswick ; they are laden with most magnificent grapes, the 

 bunches varying from 6 inches to nearly 2 feet in length ; some 

 of tlie berries are also of great size. Tliey are colouring well, 

 and will be ripe in a short time. I am happy to add, that a 

 considerable number of visitors come to the gardens daily to see 



The Garden Corr 



neeting consented to 1: 



this work I hope to have finished by the end of this month. 



Tlie fruit crops are unusually late. The Pears on walls are. 

 with some exceptions, very abundant; likewise on standards, 

 dwarfs, and espaliers. Apples on standards are plentiful ; on 

 dwarfs there are but few. Owing to the bad spring and cold 

 summer, all these fruits are late,- but if the weather should 

 prove fine they may yet attain a fair size. 



Tlie crop of Peaches and Nectarines on the south wall is not 

 so good as might have been expected at the time of blossoming, 

 for although the blossoms were sufficiently protected by tiffany, 

 yet the fruit dropped off very much, owing ' ' 



been paralysed by the untimfilv anrl fiPv^r^f, 



gathering Acton Scott. Hemskirk, and Early Ann peaches, which 

 m a good season would have been ripe early in August. The new 

 plantations of fruit trees have succeeded well, and many of the 

 pear trees planted in March last have borne a good crop of fruit. 



The plants and vegetables sent for trial wiirbe fully reported 

 on in the Journal of the Society, and tlierefore I need not trouble 

 the Council with the particulara. The cold wet summer has 

 been very detrimental to the crops, both of fruit and vegetables. 

 The Potatoes have suffered very much from disease; in some 



