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Pears, grafted on Medlar Stocks, are found by Capt. Peter 

 Rainier, R. N., to become more juicy, and not inferior in 

 flavour. They grow vigorously, fruit the second year, and 

 bear abundantly. Some are much altered in appearance; 

 the Jargonelle remains nearly green when ripe, and is a much 

 shorter fruit than when produced from a Pear or Quince 

 stock. 



65. Notice of the Siberian Bittersweet, a new and valuable Cyder 

 Apple. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. P.H.S. &c. 



Raised "from a seed of the Golden Harvey Apple, and 

 pollen of the yellow Siberian Crab," and we have no doubt 

 it is what it is said to be, " new and valuable." The following 

 merits, however, are surely too great for practical credence : 

 " The American bug wholly avoids the trees. I have fre- 

 quently inserted grafts into stocks, upon which those insects 

 abounded, and upon which they had continued to abound ; 

 but I never saw more than one instance in which they were 

 found upon the graft, and then it was just above its junction 

 with the stock, and three days afterwards they had entirely 

 disappeared." We have not a doubt that this statement is 

 perfectly correct in regard to the individual plants in ques- 

 tion, but to infer from it that the Siberian bittersweet is much, 

 or at all, less obnoxious to the attacks of the American bug 

 than any other variety of apple, we think inconsistent with 

 experience in regard to this insect, and we are sure that to 

 leave such an inference open to be drawn, is calculated to de- 

 ceive the amateur, and might injure the practical gardener. 

 We could produce cases of both from papers of Mr. Knight's, 

 {e. g. the pine-apple,) but we know that a hint to our excel- 

 lent and much esteemed president will be sufficient. The 

 truth is, that without that ardour and imagination which leads 

 a man to push any favourite idea as far as it will go, Mr. Knight 

 could never have accomplished for horticulture so much as 

 he has done. It is impossible to be often original and right, 

 without being sometimes extravagant and wrong. 



66. An Account of two Varieties of the Mango Fruit, which ripened 

 in the Garden of the Earl Powis, at Walcot Hall, in Shropshire. 

 By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. Sec. &c. 



" I have to address the society upon the subject of the 

 Mangoes which have lately been communicated to us by the 

 Earl of Powis." " I feel called upon to acquaint the public, 

 as speedily as possible, with the result of this very signal 

 triumph of skill and perseverance over difficulties, which have 



