THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



RTICULTURE. 



APRIL, 1852. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes on some of the new or recently introduced 

 varieties of Fruits, which have been exhibited during the 

 year 1851. By Hon. J. S. Cabot, President of the Mass. 

 Hort. Society. 



The following observations, concerning some of the newer 

 varieties of fruits, for a testing of whose quality some oppor- 

 tunity has been afforded during the past season, are herewith 

 offered for such disposition as may be thought proper. As, 

 however, the examinations upon which these remarks are 

 founded have been confined, in the main, to a few specimens 

 of the different varieties, produced for, perhaps, the first or 

 second time, and even such specimens not always in the most 

 perfect state, the deduction therefrom of a conclusive opinion 

 respecting the quality of these fruits, as was remarked in a 

 similar previous communication, would not be justifiable, 

 nor is any expression of such opinion now intended. Our 

 experience in the cultivation of fruit is now sufficient to 

 warrant the assertion, that the produce of a tree in its earlier 

 stages of bearing is by no means always a true criterion of 

 the quality of the variety ; that maturity or a state approach- 

 ing maturity may be necessary, and with those of foreign 

 origin it is even perhaps possible that some acclimatizing, or 

 the becoming adapted to a soil and climate different from 

 those of the place of such origin, by some process of nature 



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