Report of the Fruit Committee. 



and consequently held in no estimation at all ; and the hard 

 one, which adheres closely to the stone, arrive at a high 

 flavour, and great excellence, though these last will scarcely 

 ripen at Paris, according to Duhamel, who speaking of 

 the Peche de Pau, says, " It is so late that it will not succeed 

 " with us, except in very dry and warm autumns." And 

 he says pretty much the same thing of the Pavie rouge de 

 Pomponne. 



The following are the rules by which each kind of fruit 

 will be distinguished, and of which several copies were, in an 

 early part of the season, distributed among the Members of 

 the Committee on Fruit, under the title of " Desiderata." 

 But every possible accuracy of description must be of little 

 avail, to enable those who are not very conversant with the 

 subject, immediately to know one kind from another, unless 

 accompanied by a faithful coloured representation of the 

 fruit described : and in this particular your Committee have 

 been very fortunate, having received the greatest assistance 

 from one of their own number, Mr. William Hooker, 

 whose great skill in his profession, and whose quickness in 

 seizing the true characteristic marks of each tree or fruit, 

 have been only surpassed, by the zeal, and diligence, which 

 he has manifested in the pursuit. 



