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XX XIII. Notices of New or Remarkable Varieties of Fruits, 

 ripened in the Summer and Autumn of the Year 1819, which 

 were exhibited at the Meetings of the Horticultural Society. 



It having appeared to the Council, that it would be desira- 

 ble to publish in the Transactions, annually, an account of 

 the New or Remarkable Varieties of Fruits which are exhibi- 

 ted in each year, at Meetings of the Society ; the following 

 statement, respecting those produced in the year 1819, has 

 been drawn up from notes which were made at the periods 

 when the different specimens were shewn, which notes have 

 since been corrected by the persons from whom the fruit* 

 were received. 



The effect of this practice will be, to point out at one view 

 whatever of novelty or singularity, deserving particular at- 

 tention, may have been submitted to the Society, and to 

 draw to thedifferent subjects that future consideration which 

 their respective merits may deserve. Another advantage 

 resulting from it will be, that many fruits on which lengthened 

 communications might otherwise have been made, will be 

 sufficiently noticed without occupying too much space in 

 the pages of the Transactions. 



It is not proposed to introduce any mention of the exhibi- 

 tions of fruits whose established excellence has made them 

 sufficiently known, although finely grown or well matured 

 specimens may have been sent to the Society ; the novelty 

 of the subjects, the circumstance of their being little known 

 to cultivators, or the expediency of clearing up some doubt- 



