284 Pomological JYotices; or JYotices respecting 



him, was shown me as a curiosity by Mr. Kirke; this, though 

 exposed to the weather, and not painted, together with the 

 iron, is still in a fine state of preservation, although it has 

 stood nearly two hundred years. 



At the garden of the London Horticultural Society, the 

 trees are set very remarkably close, and generally trained as 

 quenouilles, or in pyramidal forms. These also bore re- 

 markable crops in that year, being furnished with limbs quite 

 to the base, some of the branches loaded with fruit, at times 

 resting on the ground. William Ke:^rick. 



J^ewton, July, 1841. 



Art. II. Pomological J\''otices; or J\'*otices respecting new 

 and superior varieties of Fruits, worthy of general culti- 

 vation. 



Owing to the number of excellent communications with 

 which we have been favored by our correspondents, we have 

 been unable to complete our pomological notices for the sea- 

 son. After the appearance of Mr. Manning's article, describ- 

 ing one hundred and twenty-four varieties of apples, it was 

 our intention to insert in the next number some brief notes 

 on a few new fruits which have been brought into notice 

 within a short time, in England; but although the year has so far 

 advanced, still we believe they will be read with as much inter- 

 est now as if they had appeared in April or May. An acquaint- 

 ance with them at this time will enable the amateur to procure 

 them from abroad, if he is desirous of doing so; or, in case 

 they may have already been obtained by some of our more en- 

 terprising nurserymen, secure them at once, in order that their 

 merits may be more speedily tested. The facility with which 

 plants may now be obtained, by the aid of steam coamumi- 

 cation with England, opens a new field of enterprise to the 

 nurseryman, by giving him the opportunity of importing, with 

 some degree of safety, what before it was almost impossible 



