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XXIII. Notices of Subjects communicated to the Horticultural 

 Society, between May 1st, 1817, and April 1st, 1818, of 

 which Separate Accounts have not been published in its 

 Transactions. Extracted from the Minute Booh and 

 Papers of the Society. 



M ay 20, 1817. Mr. Oldaker sent from Sir Joseph 

 Banks's Garden, at Spring Grove, a new variety of Radish, 

 imported by him from Russia in 1812. The root is white, 

 tapering like a carrot, and is much larger than is found in 

 any of the common Radishes ; it has rather a nutty flavour, 

 approaching to that of the Rampion. The cultivation of it 

 is the same as that of other Radishes. By successive sowings, 

 in a rich and moist soil, it may be obtained for use, during 

 the whole summer. It does not run to seed so rapidly as the 

 common sorts. 



July 15, 1817. Mr. John Wilmot, of Isleworth, sent 

 some specimens of a Strawberry, very superior both in size 

 and flavour, the produce of a seedling, raised by himself. It 

 is valuable on account of being very prolific, but more par- 

 ticularly, by ripening later than the common Scarlet, to which 

 it has some affinity. The plants of the Scarlet Strawberry, 

 in an adjoining bed, had been cleared of fruit ten days, before 

 these specimens were gathered. It is called Wilmot's late 

 Scarlet Strawberry. 



September 2, 1817. A Melon, raised by Solomon Israel, 

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