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 besides its usual flowers; it is called Lucas' Incomparable. 

 It is, in general, a good bearer, and produces fruit of a large 

 size, which are much esteemed as kitchen Apples, being re- 

 markably good boilers. They are singular in having very 

 small cores, some of them are even without any; this un- 

 usual circumstance probably arises from a defect in the 

 formation of the flowers, which appears, by the doubleness 

 of some of them, to be subject to deviation from regularity 

 in the arrangement of their parts. 



At the same Meeting. Mr. Shailer also exhibited a col- 

 lection of specimens of nine kinds of Moss Roses, sufficiently 

 different from each other to be considered as distinct va- 

 rieties. They were named: 1st, The Single Moss Rose; 

 2nd, The Semi-double Moss Rose; 3rd, The Common Moss 

 Rose ; 4th, The Blush Moss Rose ; 5th, The Scarlet Moss 

 Rose; 6th, The Mottled Moss Rose ; 7th, The Striped Moss 

 Rose ; 8th, The White Moss Rose ; 9th, The De Meaux 

 Moss Rose. With these, was also exhibited, a branch, bear- 

 ing the Flower of the Moss Rose, and the Common Provence 

 Rose, growing together; this circumstance, though not very 

 common, is well known to those conversant with the spe- 

 cies and varieties of Roses, and is a proof of the error into 

 which writers on the genus Rosa have fallen, in treating as 

 two species those which are certainly the same ; the Moss 

 Rose is decidedly only a variety of the Rosa Provincialis, 

 or Provence Rose. 



August 17, J819- Mr. John Dawson, a Corresponding 

 Member of the Society, gardener to Sir Watkin Williams 

 Wynne, atWynnstay, in Denbighshire, sent a dozen Fruits 



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