On the Cultivation of the Lo-quat. 



situation in the tan. This summer, however, I was obliged 

 to alter my mode ; for, just at the moment, when I was 

 going to put it out for its winter, it became covered with 

 at least twenty bunches of the finest flowers possible ; I was 

 therefore obliged to let it remain where it was. The present 

 year s treatment, therefore, is an ex ception to the former 

 practice ; under that, it usually breaks into flower about the 

 end of December, and the fruit becomes ripe in March or 

 April. 



The last time my plant was in fruit, Sir William Coke, 

 who had resided many years in Ceylon, where he is at pre- 

 sent, was with me at Blithfield ; he told me that he was in 

 the constant habit of eating very large quantities of the fruit 

 daily in that island, but that he had never tasted any so 

 good, and with so much flavour, as those produced in my 

 garden. 



My present bearing-tree I purchased of Mr. Colvill, in 

 the King's Road, about twelve or fourteen years ago, if I 

 remember right, and it was then a very small plant ; it is now 

 seven feet and a half high, the circumference of the branches 

 being twelve feet ; the girth of the stem is six inches and a 

 half. 



I have many very fine young trees from seeds of my own, 

 and think some of them, which are about six years old, and 

 five and six feet high, are of sufficient age to begin bearing 

 fruit the next season. I shall consequently force them for 

 that purpose. 



I remain, 

 Your faithful and obliged Servant, 

 Bagot. 



Blithfield, 31st August, 1818. 



