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Notices of New or Remarkable 



ful point, respecting any particular kind, will be the only 

 grounds for introduction in!;o these Notices. In the present 

 account, some of the articles which ought to be included in 

 it, are necessarily omitted for want of descriptions sufficiently 

 full ; the notes which had been made of them, are perfect 

 records in the Minutes of the Society, but not so well 

 adapted for publication as they might have been, had the 

 intention of printing this account been known when they 

 were first made ; such, therefore, have been omitted. 



In every case where fruits, either new, or not generally 

 established, are transmitted to the Society, and are found to 

 deserve attention, application is made to those persons who 

 have communicated the specimens, for plants or grafts of the 

 kinds, and these are made public either by distribution to 

 the Members present at the Meetings of the Society, or 

 through the Nurserymen who are Fellows thereof ; thus giv- 

 ing them publicity with the least possible delay. 



It is hoped that this explanation will for the future pre- 

 vent a practice which has become too common, of Members 

 individually making application to persons who have exhi- 

 bited fruits, &c. to the Society, for plants, cuttings, &c. 

 thereof. It will readily be conceived that such applications, 

 likety, as they are, to become numerous, from the great in- 

 crease of the Society, must be attended with considerable 

 inconvenience, and have a material effect in defeating the 

 objects of the Institution, by deterring individuals from exhi- 

 biting those things which they may think interesting, but 

 which experience must have taught them, will induce so 

 much trouble. 



