Varieties of Fruits. 



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tolerably good flavour. It becomes coloured towards the 

 middle of June, and being earlier than any other kind, is 

 usually brought into the market before it is well ripened : 

 but if suffered to remain till perfectly matured, it is a good 

 fruit, and even then precedes all the others. 



Mr. Wilmot also, on the 7th of September, exhibited 

 Gooseberries from a seedling which is called Wilmot's Late 

 Gooseberry ; they were a large oval, of a dark red colour, 

 and perfectly fresh and good, although the bush had not 

 been shaded, and grew in an exposed situation. 



Apricots. 



John Sudlow, Esq. of Thames Ditlon, exhibited at the 

 Meetings in August, specimens of a Seedling from the Moor 

 Park Apricot. They were large, and so like the fruit of the 

 parent as scarcely to be distinguished from it, either in ap- 

 pearance or flavour. This may, however, be considered an 

 acquisition ; for having been raised in England, it is pro- 

 bable that it will be hardier, and better adapted to our climate 

 than its parent, which is originally French ; being the same 

 variety which is known in France as the Abricot PSche. 



Plums. 



Specimens of the Goliath Plum were exhibited by Mr. 

 David Anderson, gardener to Lord Montagu at Ditton 

 Park, near Windsor ; also from the garden of J ohn Wells, 

 Esq. of Bickley House, near Bromley in Kent. This is 

 the variety which is figured by Mr. Hooker in the Po- 

 mona Londinensis, under the name of the Nectarine Plum, a 

 name given to it as being expressive of its appearance. 



