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LII. Observations on the Formation of a Select Collection 

 of Apple Trees, with an Account and Description of four 

 new Seedling Dessert Apples. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 

 F. R. S, $c. Secretary. 



Read January 5, 1819. 



Several seedling Apples of considerable merit having 

 been exhibited at the Meetings of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety during the last season, I have selected four of them, 

 which appear to me to deserve particular notice in the 

 Transactions of the Society, because they may probably 

 hereafter be considered of sufficient value to form part of 

 every good collection. 



Those persons who have witnessed the great variety of 

 Apples which were shewn to the Society during the last six 

 months, may think, perhaps, that any addition to the stock 

 of this fruit is not necessary ; and that it requires reduction, 

 rather than increase. In the propriety of this opinion I fully 

 concur ; and I consider that one of the chief points to which 

 the attention of the Society is at present directed, is the 

 effecting that object, by forming a list of those Apples, whose 

 value is well ascertained, and encouraging the cultivation and 

 distribution of those alone. 



Of the many sorts of Apples which we daily observe in the 

 fruit shops and on the stalls in the metropolis, the quality is 

 so inferior, as to excite surprise that they are purchased ; and 

 in the smaller towns and villages of the kingdom, as far 



