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XI. An Account of some New Apples, which, with many others 

 that have been long cultivated, were exhibited before the 

 Horticultural Society, the second of December, 1806. By 

 Mr. Arthur Biggs, F. H. S. Gardener to Isaac 

 Swainson, Esq. at Twickenham, in Middlesex. 



Read February 3, 1807. 



all the different fruits that our island affords, none can 

 be brought to a higher degree of perfection, with so little care 

 and trouble, especially in its southern counties, as the Apple . 

 For a proof of this, I hope it will not be deemed presump- 

 tuous in me to refer to the catalogue below, every variety of 

 which I had the honour of exhibiting to the Horticultural 

 Society, at our meeting in December last. Having been flat- 

 tered by the wishes of many gentlemen then present, to give 

 some account of such as are new, and by what culture they 

 have been produced in such perfection, I cannot but attempt 

 it, though very inadequate to the task, for almost every hour 

 of my life has been employed in following the instructions of 

 others, and when I have deviated from them, with a view to 

 improvement, I have seldom been able to write down the 

 result of my experiments with any satisfaction to myself. 



Besides the sorts of Apples lately exhibited, the garden of 

 my indulgent master, contains a number of others which 

 are less valuable. When 1 mention that I am cutting these 

 away as the better trees advance, and thinning the branches 

 of the latter also as they require it, I perhaps tell all that 

 is to be told upon the subject; for I have found nothing of 



