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XLV. Description of a New Seedling Plum. In a Letter 

 to the Secretary. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F. R. S. $c. President. 



Read September 1, 1818 



My Dear Sir, 



I have sent you a single specimen of a new variety of Plum, 

 which I this season first obtained in a mature state, from a 

 young seedling tree. The appearance of the fruit is, I 

 think, rather inviting ; but I have not had any opportunity 

 of judging of its merits or defects ; the tree having produced 

 its first fruit in the last year, when it was destroyed, long 

 before it became ripe, by myriads of famishing wasps, and 

 in the present season, the single Plum I send is all I possess. 

 This variety is the offspring of an unsuccessful attempt to 

 combine the bulk of the Yellow Magnum Bonum with 

 the richness and flavour of the Green Gage ; the first men- 

 tioned, which it resembles in form, and in some degree in 

 colour, having been its male parent. The fruit has ripened 

 ten or twelve days before the Green Gage, on the same 

 aspect, at which period no variety of much merit is, I believe, 

 found, at present, in our gardens. 



The experiment not having been made under very fa- 

 vourable circumstances, and the folia e and general habit 



