By Mr. William Baxter. 



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Note by the Secretary. 



Some Figs, the produce of the Pocock Fig tree, were ex- 

 hibited at the Meeting of the Horticultural Society, on the 

 17th of August, and proved to be the sort usually known by 

 the name of the White Marseilles Fig. The supposition, that 

 the Pocock Fig tree was the first of the sort introduced into 

 this country is erroneous, for there are now growing in the 

 garden of the Episcopal Palace at Lambeth, Fig trees of 

 the same variety as the Pocock Fig, of much greater age, 

 and which are generally believed to have been planted there, 

 by Cardinal Pole,, in the time of Henry the Eighth. 



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