its age. Soil and situation, if unfavourable, will 

 stamp the symptoms of decay in a few years. 



There are no records to state the fact of any 

 variety, worth cultivating-, having ceased to be. 



An annual plant, raised from seed this season, 

 might henceforth be continued, by cuttings, so long 

 as the earth and the elements continue nearly in the 

 same state. Whether a tree may be also so con- 

 tinued, may be inferred. 



Shoots vigorous, spreading variously ; where 

 bare, of a chestnut colour, sprinkled with pale 

 roundish spots ; towards the extremities they are 

 densely covered with a silvery gray pubescence. 



Leaves middle-sized, ovate, acuminate, concave, 

 moderately serrated ; beneath silvery with pubes- 

 cence. The Petioles also exhibit much of the 

 latter appearance ; they are of moderate thickness, 

 and about an inch in length. Stipules lanceolate. 



Flowers middle-sized. Petals ovate. 



Fruit somewhat above the middle size, rather 

 flat than oblong, broadest near the base ; its outline 

 obtusely angular. The Eye is depressed, large, 

 with the segments of the calyx converging over it. 

 Stalk short, moderately thick, woolly, sometimes 

 inserted freely in a tolerably large cavity, and 

 sometimes thickened at its insertion in a confined 

 one, with frequently a portion of the base of the 

 fruit projecting towards it. Skin streaked next 

 the sun with brownish red, with the ground colour 

 of a rich, deep, greenish yellow shewing through it ; 

 the latter is the colour of the shaded side, disposed 

 in obscure streaks of a deeper and lighter tint ; in 



