120 Notices of Communications to the Society, of which 



pyramidal shaped, three inches and a quarter long by two 

 inches wide ; colour citron, with red and russet brown ; flesh 

 melting and vinous : very good. 4th, Charles dAutriche, 

 received before ;* in colour something like a White Beurree, 

 but in shape more convex and irregular : the drawing of this 

 fruit, sent to the Society by Dr. Van Mons, represents it of 

 a more golden hue : a very good fruit, but inferior to the 

 specimen sent last year. 5th, Marie Louise* ripe in the 

 middle of October ; long ovate, three inches and a quarter 

 long, by two inches and a half wide ; greenish yellow, with a 

 large portion of russet in splotches over it, but not red ; flesh 

 white, highly vinous, and rich : a most excellent fruit, but 

 this specimen was more like a fine St. Germain than a Bon 

 Chretien, as stated in the passage referred to below. 



At the same Meeting, some Achan Pears were tasted, 

 sent by Sir George Mackenzie from Edinburgh. They 

 are but little known in the south, though much grown 

 in Scotland, where they are highly esteemed ; in flavour they 

 are nearest our Swan's Egg Pear, but are more tapering in 

 their figure, and the coat is browner and coarser, though 

 this is probably the effect of a more northern climate. It 

 is understood that there exists more than one variety of this 

 Pear. 



At this Meeting, a large Apple^ raised in the garden of 

 Mr. Smith, near the city of Baltimore, in America, was ex- 

 hibited. It had been recently imported, with others, into 

 Liverpool, by Captain George Hobson, of the Belvidera of 

 Baltimore, who sent it to Sir Joseph Banks, by whom it was 

 presented to the Society. This apple, of which an engraving 



* See vol. ii. page 406. 



