By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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will improve. It has been observed, that firm seedling 

 Apples appear to improve with age, but soft mealy fruit 

 deteriorates, as the trees grow older. 



The observations I have made in the first part of this 

 Paper, on the propriety and expediency of forming a very 

 reduced list of Apples for general use, must not be consi- 

 dered as tending to a sudden selection of kinds, for that pur- 

 pose. I conceive that, in order to produce a result which 

 will be really useful, and generally satisfactory, every kind 

 of Apple which has acquired celebrity, or even a settled 

 name, either in the provinces, or in the vicinity of London, 

 should be submitted to comparison and observation, not 

 only on the table of the Society, but in cultivation in a gar- 

 den, together. The first consequence of such a proceeding, 

 will be a considerable reduction of the numbers of the Cata- 

 logue, for we shall find the same Apples not only from dis- 

 tant places, but even from contiguous stations, under various 

 names; the synonyms of our nomenclature being thus 

 ascertained with accuracy, will naturally facilitate the future 

 labour in the selection, which must be a work of time and 

 caution. 



