The Pomolosical Magazine. 



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 Julj. 



Zaire. 

 July. 



A seventh table, in squares like the first, may contain an outline, on a 

 small scale, of the general form taken by the tree when grown as a stand- 

 ard ; or, if generally trained as an espalier 

 or on a wall, it may be represented in 

 miniature, and of a certain fixed age, say 

 fifteen years, applicable to all the trees, 

 by which their comparative rapidity of 

 growth would be readily understood. 

 {fig. 122.) This last table probably might 

 not be published for some years after the 

 other tables. 



In the first six tables all the objects 

 should be represented of their natural 

 size. The subjects of the seventh table 

 should all be of the same age, and di- 

 minished to the same scale. The letter- 

 press description should be ample, and, 

 to prevent it from being incomplete, or 

 in any part neglected, the particulars 

 of each fruit should be arranged under certain heads, which might be in 

 italics ; and which heads should never be omitted, even though nothing 



may be said under some of them, in order 

 to prove to the reader that they have not 

 been forgotten. These heads may be, 

 1. Name, synonyms, and reference to, 

 books and figures ; 2. Origin and history ; 

 5. Popular character of the fruit and tree;, 

 4. Fruit and seeds described ; 5. Time of 

 ripening and keeping ; 6. Flavour and use 

 in the dessert or kitchen ; 7. Blossoms ; 

 8. Leaves; 9. Wood and buds; 10. Form 

 of tree; II. Peculiarities of growth and 

 culture; 12. Comparative abundance or 

 rarity in British and foreign gardens. For 

 want of having a fixed number of heads, 

 of this sort, to recall to mind what is 



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tute a com- 

 plete description and history, component 

 items will unavoidably now and then es- 

 cape notice. As a proof of this, we have 

 only to refer to the Botanical Magazine, 

 Botanical Begister, and other botanical pe- 

 riodicals of the day, where, for want of such 

 guides, the most useful particulars of the 

 plants figured, such as time of flowering, 

 mode of propagation, habitation in the 

 garden, &c, are sometimes inadvertently 

 omitted. 



It appears to ns that tables of the above 

 description, even though not coloured, 

 would enable a gardener to make out any particular variety of apple, 

 pear, cherry, or plum, better than detached figures in an octavo volume, 

 which cannot be brought together under one view : but, if such tables 

 were coloured, we are persuaded they would surpass in usefulness any 

 work on fruits that has hitherto appeared or been projected. Supposing 



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