Description of a New Seedling Plum. 



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of the seedling tree not having been such as induced me to 

 expect that it would produce fruit of much value, I em- 

 ployed it as a stock to support another variety upon a west 

 wall, reserving only a small branch of it to shew its natural 

 produce ; or I should probably have had an abundant crop 

 in the present year, as the very few blossoms, which the tree 

 has produced upon the reserved branch, have set well, con- 

 sistently with some existing circumstances, which were very 

 unfavourable. For I had inserted buds of a Sloe, or wild 

 Plum tree, in the reserved branch ; and by the early habit 

 and luxuriant growth of these, the blossoms were at the 

 same time starved and shaded ; and the blossoms first pro- 

 duced by young seedling Plum trees, usually set very ill, 

 even under the most favourable external circumstances. 



I am, 



My dear Sir, 



sincerely yours, 



Doumton, August 28, 1811. THOMAS ANDREW KnIGHT. 



Note by the Secretary. 

 The Plum mentioned in this Paper was tasted at the 

 General Meeting of the Society on the first of September, 

 and was much approved. It seemed in shape, colour, and 

 taste, to have partaken of the qualities and properties of 

 both its parents. It was more oval than round, narrowest 

 at the end next the stalk, with the cleft scarcely percepti- 



