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CI. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural Society, 

 between May 1st, 1816, and May 1st, 1817, of which Sepa- 

 rate Accounts have not been published in its Transac- 

 tions. Extracted from the Minute Boohs and Papers of the 

 Society. 



JMay 7. 1816. John Braddick, Esq. exhibited spe- 

 cimens of Nuts, gathered in the autumns of 1814 and 

 1815, preserved in a good state to this time. Mr. Brad- 

 dick's method of keeping nuts fresh, for so long a period, 

 is as follows. The nuts are placed, when divested of their 

 leafy husks, in an empty butter firkin, which, when filled 

 with the nuts, is closed tightly by its lid, and deposited 

 in a cellar. The pores of the wood having been all com- 

 pletely stopped by the butter, the external air is prevented 

 from passing through them, and the nuts, by being thus kept 

 from exposure to it, retain their freshness a considerable 

 time, to which the moisture, arising from the salt in the 

 butter, which has penetrated into the wood, also con- 

 tributes. 



June 4, 1816. Mr. Braddick communicated to the 

 Society some observations, on the advantages of keeping 

 Pears and Apples in a cellar. The fruit, when ripe, is 

 gathered on a dry day, and placed immediately, in single 

 layers, on shelves made of white deal, in a wine cellar, 

 from which the atmospheric influence is excluded as much 



