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XXXV. An Account of the Acton-Scot Peach, a new Variety. 

 By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. fyc. President. 



Read January 3, 1815. 



In the Report of the Fruit Committee of the Horticultural 

 Society of 1813, it is very justly remarked by Mr. Wilbra- 

 ham, that the character of the Peach is very greatly affected 

 by a few degrees of latitude ;* and that the merits of the same 

 variety, when ripened in the open air, in the climates of 

 Paris, of London, and of Edinburgh, are widely different. It 

 must not, however, be hence inferred, that every variety of 

 the Peach, which may be produced, will be equally, or at all 

 injured, by being transferred from the climate of Paris to 

 that of Edinburgh ; or improved, by being removed from 

 Edinburgh to Paris, however favourable the climate of Paris 

 may be to the melting Peach. For, probably, every variety, 

 to which Mr. Wilbraham alludes, acquired its celebrity 

 in the vicinity of Paris, to which climate it proved to be 

 nicely adapted ; and it is not at all extraordinary, that such 

 a Peach should lose a large portion of its merits, when 

 removed to so much colder a climate. And if the Peach 

 had been as long cultivated, and with as much skill and 

 attention, in the climate of Edinburgh, as it has been in that 

 of Paris: and if selection had been made from as many 

 seedling plants, I think it probable, that many varieties 

 would have been raised, which would have been capable of 



* See page 61 of this volume. 



