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XVII. Account of two Apples, and a Winter Potatoe, culti- 

 vated in Cornwall. In a Letter to the Secretary. By 

 Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bart. F. R. S. fyc. 



Read March 2, 1813. 



Dear Sir, 



X beg you will do me the favour to lay before the Horticul- 

 tural Society, a few cuttings of two sorts of Apples from 

 Cornwall. 



The one called the Aromatic Apple is said to have been 

 an inhabitant of the county for centuries, though little known 

 out of it. The tree is a good bearer, and the Apples are 

 among the best and the latest of the store kinds. The 

 trees generally shew marks of age and decay, but when 

 cultivated with care, or on new stocks, the produce is large 

 and fine. 



The other cuttings are of a new sort of Apple, said to have 

 been discovered about ten, or fifteen years since, by a gen- 

 tleman in a cottage garden, near Truro ; who having pur- 

 chased some of the fruit, afterwards took grafts from the tree. 

 It goes by the name of the July flower Apple, probably 

 from the pleasant smell it gives out when cut. The fruit 

 has a long conical shape, and is of a yellowish green colour, 

 with red towards the sun. The fragrance of the smell when 

 cut, and the excellence of the flavour, render it one of the 

 best of modern Apples. The eye is large and deep; the leaf 



