By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq, 



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luxuriance, and bears abundantly ; ripening its fruit, which I have 

 never seen cracked in any season, tolerably well : but the fruit sent 

 to the Society was grown upon a branch inserted on an old Plum 

 tree. 



I possess at least a couple more good Plums of the same family, 

 of which I propose to send samples to the Society in the autumn ; 

 and I shall be happy to send grafts of any, which may be approved. 

 The latter part of the autumn, and the beginning of winter, appear 

 to me t© be the seasons, when good varieties of the Plum would 

 be most valuable : for in the earlier part of the year, a fine Plum, 

 such as the Green Gage, has not only to compete with the Moor- 

 park Apricot, and the best of our Nectarines, but nine tenths of 

 the fruit, in a large majority of seasons, are destroyed by wasps and 

 other insects, before they have had time to acquire their highest 

 state of maturity. The Plums above mentioned, on the contrary, 

 wholly escape all injury from those causes, and ripen at a season, 

 when fine fruits are less abundant. 



I have also many new varieties of Pears, some of which possess 

 much excellence, and which bear and ripen well upon standard 

 trees, and in situations where the Belgic varieties do not succeed 

 at all ; and it will afford me pleasure to supply grafts of any which 

 I possess, and which the Society may wish to receive. 



