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lyfardi or April, This is the Winter Pearmain of the middle counties of 

 England, and of old orchardists. — J. M. 



28. The Blenheim Pippin. " Among the largest kind of table apples in 

 the middle of November, and will occasionally keep till the following 

 March. A great bearer as a dwarf tree, grafted on an English Paradise 

 or Doucin stock." 



The following paragraph has been sent us bj' an intelligent nurseryman : 



Inferior and common Fruits ahoidd not be figured. — A reader of the Pomo- 

 logical Magazine avows his disappointment at meeting, in that high-priced 

 work, (to the exclusion of others more rare and valuable,') figures of such 

 inferior fruits as strawberries, raspberries, and gooseberries ! which, being 

 so well known, and so speedily and easily corrected if wrong, may be had 

 true from every nursery ; such, he thinks, maybe as effectually pointed out 

 by name 'J'he high merit of the work, in other respects, enhances the 

 regret, that so much ability should be so expended. {April.) 



The following advertisement appears on the cover of No. VH. As we 

 had written the remarks at the end of No. VI., when reviewing that num- 

 ber, and as the advertisement is much too indefinite to meet our views, we 

 have allowed the remarks to remain, but also .give the advertisement, and 

 leave both to work their way with our readers. 



" Advertisement. — The plan of the Pomological Magazine appearing, 

 iiotwithstanding the notice which has been hitherto affixed to it, to have 

 been in some measure misunderstood, the Editors beg leave to make the fol- 

 lowing additional statement : — It has been represented that no limits can 

 be reasonably assigned to the work, upon the ground that, in the first 

 place, the supply of newly raised fruits is inexhaustible: and, secondly, 

 that those already known by name amount to many thousands. With 

 regard to the first of these arguments, '^the Editors take the liberty of re- 

 marking, that, so far is it from their intention to publish new fruits, merely 

 because they are new, that they have always intended to pass them by, unless 

 their merits are of a high order; and it is to be presumed, that no one is 

 desirous of remaining in ignorance of the existence and properties of a 

 valuable fruit, merely because of its novelty : if this were the general feel- 

 ing, all hopes of improving our dessert must be abandoned. As to the 

 propriety of estimating the extent of the work from the number of varieties 

 already known, it is only necessary to remark, that, of the thousands of 

 names of fruit now in existence, fully two thirds are a repetition of the 

 remainder — a point which it is one of the objects of the Pomological 

 Magazine to determine; and of the supposed remaining third, a very large 

 proportion is worthless, and certainly not likely to find a place, except in- 

 cidentally by name, in this work. In support of this representation, the 

 Editors beg permission to refer to the six numbers already published ; in 

 these only twenty-four distinct varieties have been figured, but they repre- 

 sent seventy-nine synonymous names, besides fifteen other varieties which 

 are cited in the letter-press as not, materially distinct : so that the whole 

 number of names really illustrated in the first six numbers is ninety-four. 

 From this it is apparent, that the Pomological Magazine is so far from 

 being likely to extend to an indefinite number of volumes, that its limits 

 will, in all probability, be more circumscribed than those of any periodical 

 publication of the same description." 



Fleming's British Farmer's Magazine, exclusively devoted to Agriculture 

 and Rural Affairs. In 8vo Numbers, quarterly. 4s. 



No. VII. for May, contains 

 1. Original Communications. — On the past and present State of the 

 British Farmer. A most interesting paper, by a particular friend and cor- 

 respondent of ours. — On the Qualities of Moss Earth, by W. Alton, Esq. 

 The chemical qualities have not yet been duly investigated. The qualities 



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