NEW FKUITS. 



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exhibited before the London Horticultural Society in 

 1821. The stone is quite small and deeply furrowed, as 

 shown in fig. 5. A full description and colored plate is 

 given in the Transactions for 1821 of the above-named 

 Society. As varieties of peculiar habit are becoming 

 quite popular of late, it would be well for some of our 

 enterprising nurserymen to re-introduce this species if it 

 has become extinct in this country. 



Italian Dwarf. — When or by whom this variety was 



Fig. 6. 



introduced we are not informed. It is very dwarfish in 

 its habit, more so than any other variety in cultivation. 

 Fruit, medium size, greenish white ; flesh, white, with red 

 stains near the center ; in quality not first-rate ; stone, 

 small ; flowers, large and showy ; leaves, serrate. Speci- 

 mens started in January in green-house did not ripen their 

 fruit until the 1st of September. The pots were removed 

 to the open border in summer. The past season was very 

 wet in the vicinity, New York city, and this may account 



