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XXX. On some new Varieties of the Peach. By Thomas 

 Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. 



Read May 2, 1809- 



In a former Part of the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society* I have mentioned some experiments I had made with 

 the hope of obtaining new and early varieties of the Peach, 

 which might prove better calculated for our climate, than 

 those which have been imported from the southern parts of 

 Europe : and as the character of some of the plants that I 

 have raised affords a fair prospect of success, I have thought 

 the following account sufficiently interesting, to induce me 

 to send it to the Horticultural Society. 



In efforts to obtain new varieties of fruits of other ge- 

 nera, I have had reason to conclude, from the success of 

 former experiments, that the trees, from blossoms and seeds 

 of which it is proposed to propagate, should have grown 

 at least two years in mould of the best quality ; that during 

 that period, they ought not to be suffered to exhaust them- 

 selves, by bearing any considerable crop of fruit ; and that 

 the wood of the preceding year should be thoroughly ri- 

 ripened (by artificial heat wheh necessary), at an early period 

 in the autumn : and if early maturity in the fruit of the 

 new seedling plant is required, I think, that the fruit, within 



* Horticultural Transactions, page 30. 



