THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



MAY, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Pomological jyolices; or J^otices respecting neiv 

 and superior varieties of Fruits, ivorthy of general cultiva- 

 tion. By the Editor. 



In our last volume, (VII., p. 284,) we gave an account of 

 several new fruits recently introduced into notice abroad. 

 Since then, most or all of those that had not previously been 

 added to our collections, have been introduced, and but a 

 short period will elapse before we shall have the opportunity 

 of giving a better account of them than the mere reports of 

 foreign publications. The influence of our climate may 

 change the character of a variety, and make it better or poor- 

 er; and it is only after an actual test of the fruit they produce, 

 that we can speak confidently of a new variety, or ascertain 

 its full value to the i\.merican cultivator. Yet, in the absence 

 of such information, we may surely recommend a trial of all 

 new fruits which have been pronounced valuable by foreign 

 cultivators of eminence, in order that their merits may be at 

 once tested, and all doubts respecting their excellence set at 

 rest. 



In England, owing to the unintentional mistakes made by the 

 late Mr. Knight, or rather, by his gardener, the scions of some 

 of the new seedling pears which he was successful in raising, 

 were distributed under the wrong names, and it was not until the 

 autumn of 1840, even in the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, that the true variety of one of his pears was 

 discovered; this was the Monarch, a first rate fruit. Another 

 of his pears, called the Dunmore, has not been fully proved 

 until within a year or two; it ranks as a first rate fruit. We 



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