596 CATALOGUE OP FRUITS 



Ap'il lith. — Collecting Phymnis in tbe forest, 



A;pYil 12t/t. — Employed within doors. 



April loth, — In the forest Collected a few Physurm and 

 some plants of several other terrestrial Orchids. 



April l4.tJu — Getting ready the plants of P, 18 and the other 

 things I brought from the interior for the journey. I find that 

 many of them have died. The two species of PotJios from the 

 same locality as P. 18 are dead. The Stanhopea I brought from 

 Brotas, having been collected when wet, are nearly all rotten. 



April \hth. — Employed within doors. Packing up, &c. 



April l(jth — I intended to have started for Santos t0;day, but 



as it was late before my mules could be found, I have put it off 



until to-morrow. 



April 17f/t.— Started for Santos. 



LXX.~CATALOGUE OF FRUITB CULTIVATED 



IN THE GARDEN OF THE ROYAL HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY AT CHISAVICK. 



Fourth Edition. 



In the year 1826 the Society published, under the above title, 

 an enumeration of the principal varieties of fruits actually in cul- 

 tivation in the garden in the spring of that year. It comprehended 

 nearly the whole of those which had ever appeared in print in 

 foreign or English lists of authority, and as many unpublished 

 kinds as appeared to deserve record. The foundation of this 

 collection was laid in the Society's first garden at Kensington, 

 which was established in the year 1818; it was subsequently 

 transferred to the garden at Chiswick, in 1822, where it has 

 since continued, increased and improved by extensive contribu- 

 tions from the public and private gardens of all countries. The 

 number of varieties enumerated in that catalogue was 3825, and 

 there at that time existed in the garden nearly 1000 more of 

 less certain authority. It was anticipated, however, that a large 

 reduction would require to be made from the number, as the 

 different classes of fruits should be successively submitted to 

 careful examination as the young trees should come into bearing, 

 TPhen many kinds there stated as distinct varieties might turn 

 out to be the same. 



