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CATALOGUE OF FEUITS 



been for elimination; the number of fruits in it was only about 

 half the number of those recorded in the first edition, nearly 

 1700 having been taken from ^5825. 



The service rendered by this determination of synonyms ani 

 reduction in the number of names, was very great. It not only 

 saved the cultivator from the cost of purchasing plants which he 

 did not want, but from the loss of time and the disappointment 

 attendant on finding a tree wliich has been reared for years with 

 care, turn out eitlier absolutely worthless, or to be the same as 

 something else already in his possession. 



The experiments in the garden which were still carried on, 

 by-and bye led to an accumulation of additional material, which 

 was published as a supplement in 1853. 



These different editions have been long out of print. Con- 

 stant applications are made for them, and the Council have 

 thought that they could not present a more acceptable work to 

 the Fellows than another edition of the catalogue, embodying 

 not only the results of such additional trials as may have been 

 made since the last publication, but also, while recording the 

 results of actual observations, giving references to books which 

 may, in many instances, enable the reader to know where further 

 information on any point is likely to be procured. 



They propose that it shall first make its appearance in parts in 

 the *' Proceedings," and that separate copies of the whole shall be 

 afterwards thrown off, which may be jjurchased as a separate work. 



They are happy in having it still in their power to avail them- 

 selves, for its preparation, of the services of the same old and 

 valued officer of the Society, Mr. Robert Thompson, to whose 

 assiduity and pomological knowledge the chief merit of the 

 previous editions were due. 



Use. * 



1 AAGTaE EOUTJE NOVA. 



Medium size, A conical, red Dutci apple « 

 2iACHM0Ei;. 



Medium size, conic ovate, greenish witk deep blusk of 

 browiiisli-red •♦••,., 



3 D'ADAM. — Seigneur Eouge. — Fig, Meyer's Pom. 



Franc, t. xvi. 

 Medium size^ conical, dull red • . , . 



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Cider. 



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