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the barrenness in the centre ; growing several kinds of pear 

 upon one tree, which for small families is an advantage ; as a 

 full grown pear-tree, bearing a moderate crop in many kinds, 

 yields more fruit than can be consumed before that kind begins 

 to decay. All these advantages, however, may be much more 

 readily attained by reversing young side shoots to cover the 

 centre of the tree, or by grafting some of the horizontal 

 shoots where they issue from the main stem in the usual man- 



ner. A tree grafted in the reverse manner (fig. 9.) may be 

 curious, but it certainly is not an elegant object. 



64. Notice of new or remarkable Varieties of Fruits, ripened in the 

 Summer and Autumn of the Year 1822, which were exhibited at 

 Meetings of the Horticultural Society. 



Strawberries. — Nairn's scarlet, from seed, by Mr. John 

 Nairn, gardener to Thomas Forbes Reynolds, Esq. at Hack- 

 bridge, in Surrey. 



Wilmot's black imperial, from seed, from Keens' imperial. 



Grove End scarlet, from seed, by William Atkinson, Esq., 

 Grove End, Marylebone. 



Peach. — Spring Grove Persian peach, from a stone re- 

 ceived from Persia, and grown by Mr. Isaac Oldacre, at 

 Lady Banks's, Spring Grove, Hounslow. 



Grape. — Elford's seedling grape, from seed sown in January 

 1821, and now exhibited on the 1st of October 1822, being a re- 

 markable instance of a vine bearing fruit in the first year from 

 seed. It is a tolerably good grape. By Mr. William Buck, 

 gardener to the Hon. F. G. Howard, at Elford, near Lichfield. 



Apples. — The Jubilee pippin, from seed sown in the year 

 of the jubilee, 1 809, in the garden of Michael Bland, Esq. at 

 Norwich. 



