THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE 



APRIL, 1843. 



ORIGINxVL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. 1. The London Horticultural Society's Catalogue of 

 Fruits. 3d Edition. 1842 : With Notices of several of 

 the varieties enumerated since the 2d Edition, and other 

 Remarks. By the Editor. 



Sixteen years have now elapsed since the London Horti- 

 cultural Society first issued its Catalogue oiFimis. In 1826, 

 the collection of trees had so accumulated, from various 

 sources, that it was deemed expedient to issue a catalogue 

 of their names ; but no attempt was made to give any de- 

 scription of the fruits, as the society had not then sufficient 

 information to justify such a course. In 1831, however, the 

 2d edition of the catalogue was published, and during the ex- 

 perience of five years upwards of 2000 varieties of fruit were 

 described which had actually fruited in the society's garden, 

 and from which the descriptions and characteristics of each 

 variety were made up under the observing eye of Mr. Thomp- 

 son, then, as well as now, at the head of the pomological de- 

 partment. But the descriptions are not all. The detection of 

 the immense number of synonyms under which the same 

 varieties were cultivated in various nurseries and gardens 

 in England and France, has rendered the catalogue one of 

 the most important books to the fruit-cultivator which has 

 ever been published. 



We have now before us the //uW edition of this catalogue, 

 published in December last, and bringing down to that time 

 all the information which has been collected during the ele- 

 ven years which have passed since the second edition was 

 issued. In the preface to the last edition it is stated, that 



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