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146. Breda Apricbt. A small fruit, of excellent flavour, and the tree 

 in ordinary seasons bears remarkably well as a standard. Ripens from the 

 beginning to the middle of August on walls, and its perfection is consider- 

 ably prolonged on standards. 



147. The Barrington Peach. A large, handsome, roundish fruit, of the 

 first excellence, allied to the Grosse Mignonne, but perfectly distinct from 

 that variety ; coming in later, and in succession to the Royal George. 



148. The Nectarine Plum. A large fruit, like a nectarine in shape and 

 size, and decidedly the best large plum known. A good bearer, either on 

 a wall or as a standard, ripening upon the former at the end of July. 



In a postscript to this number we are informed that all the articles signed 

 R, T. have been exclusively prepared by Mr. Thompson. They do him 

 much credit j it is liberal and proper in the editors thus to do him justice, 

 and we are sure the work will gain by it, because Mr. Thompson must 

 necessarily be more deeply imbued v/ith the subject of fruits than any other 

 man in England. 



We have not thought it worth while to give the synonymes to the 

 names ; because we think this may be more usefully done in the descriptive 

 catalogue, which, with Mr. Thompson's assistance, we mean to give in our 

 Supplement to the Encyc. of Gard., and because they could be of very 

 little use to nurserymen. There is only one course for these gentlemen to 

 pursue, and that is, as soon as Mr. Thompson's catalogue appears, to pro- 

 cure scions and cuttings from the Horticultural Society, and propagate no 

 longer from their old stock. Those who neglect this will neither do jus- 

 tice to themselves nor to the public. It is true, such nurserymen as Messrs. 

 Ronalds, Gibbs, Pearson of Chilwell, and a few others, who have fruit- 

 bearing specimens of all the apples, and perhaps of some of the other sorts 

 of fruits which they propagate, may have it in theii^ power to say that they 

 send out nothing to theii" customers that they have not proved to be excel- 

 lent ; but that circumstance will not prevent the continuation of the present 

 confusion in nursery nomenclature. We see no plan of preventing this, 

 but beginning de novo with cuttings from the Society. We would also 

 recommend all persons whatever who raise, or think they have discovered, 

 new varieties of fruits, to send them first to the Horticultural Society, and 

 leave their merits, their names, and their distribution among the trade 

 entirely to that body. We should not have recommended this two years 

 ago, when the Horticultural Society was proceeding on a monopolising 

 system, and when its members consisted of two distinct classes : one, who 

 had subscribed to the Garden, privileged to obtain things from it according 

 to the amount of then- subscriptions, their rank and influence ; and an- 

 othei', who had not subscribed to the garden, who were not entitled to ask 

 for any thing. Thanks to Mr. Ker, these days are gone ; and something 

 exists like equality of privileges on the part of the members, and liberality 

 of treatment on the part of the officers of the Society. 



No. XXXVIII. for December, contains 



149. The Horsforth Seedling Grape, Rhodes's Grape {Gard. Mag., 

 Vol. II. p. 399.). Supposed " between the Black Hamburgh and the Mus- 

 cat," but " there is no trace of the Muscat flavour in it. The skin of 

 the berries is rather thicker than in the Black Hamburgh ; the flesh is of 

 about the same quality;" and the berries are as large as those of the Black 

 Morocco. Rather a shy bearer, and a bad setter. 



150. The Isabella Plum. Said by Mr. Miller of Bristol to be a variety 

 of great excellence, and to stand next in the scale to the Green Gage, Coe's 

 Golden Drop, and the Washington. " It is said to bear three crops a year ;" 

 shoots like those of the Orleans ; leaves and flowers middle-sized ; fruit 

 21 in. long. If in. broad, of a deep dull brownish red colour. 



131. Padley's Pippin. " Obtained by the late Mr. Padley, of the Royal 



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