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descriptions of them could not be taken. Those which were 

 noticed, were : 1, Bosc : small, shape of a bottle-gourd, a 

 red skinned pear; excellent, 2. Urbaniste : like a white 

 Beurree, but superior to it ; very rich. 3. Jean de Witte : 

 a small turbinate-shaped fruit ; very good, with the flavour 

 of the Crasanne. 



January 7, 1817. Mr. Lee, and Mr. Lewis Ken- 

 nedy, of Hammersmith, sent to the Society some Ap- 

 ples, imported from Riga, of extraordinary magnitude : 

 one, taken as a fair sample, weighed 19 ounces, and 

 measured full 16 inches round its centre, and 14 inches 

 in its other circumference, passing over the stalk and 

 eye. The apple is a native of the southern provinces 

 of Russia, whence it was transported to Riga, where it 

 flourishes, and is called the Alexander Apple, in com- 

 pliment to the Emperor, to whom some of its produce is 

 annually sent, as a present. The fruit varies a good deal 

 in shape as well as in colour : the general form is flat, or 

 obtusely conical, being widest at the end next the stalk. 

 At this end it is somewhat pentangular; towards the 

 middle it is round, and near the eye the projecting part 

 becomes again visible, and terminates in broad folds, or 

 embossures ; some are elongated, and these are more 

 decidedly angular. The eye is sunk in a very deep and 

 hollow cavity. The stalk is short, and so far inserted, in 

 a broad cavity, that it appears as if it penetrated quite to the 

 core, being full an inch from the level of the flat part of the 

 apple. The ground colour is a very delicate, pale yellowish 



