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XIII. Report of the Fruit Committee, Drawn up by Roger 

 Wilbraham, Esq. F. R. S. $-c. Vice President. 



Read Nov. 3, 1812. 



Your Committee, in the course of the autumn, directed 

 their attention to Peaches and Nectarines : and, in the very 

 commencement of their inquiry, met with considerable diffi- 

 culty owing to the same kind of fruit being worked under 

 different denominations by the nursery-men about London ; 

 so that it is not uncommon for the same identical Peach to 

 be known by three or four different names. 



Your Committee will, in the course of their labours, as far 

 as they are able so to do, point out those different names, as 

 well as the varieties, which seem to belong to each sort ; 

 mentioning in the first place the name of the Peach the most 

 generally known, and afterwards those which appear to be 

 assimilated to it. 



The custom with many gardeners, of giving their own 

 names to fruit of any sort (except indeed when such fruit 

 has been actually raised by them from the seed), the Com- 

 mittee think ought to be reprobated, as an idle and mis- 

 chievous vanity on their parts, tending to confound the most 

 intelligent Horticulturists; for in most cases a discovery 

 is shortly made, and it is found that the newly-named 

 fruit is in fact an old one, brought again into cultivation 

 under a new name, after the neglect of several years. 



