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Notices of Nero or Remarkable 



The fruit is very large, compressed at each end, with a 

 very slight cleft. The skin is of a deep reddish purple, very 

 pungent to the laste. Flesh pale, firm, and well flavoured, 

 but not rich; it however bakes well, and for culinary pur- 

 poses is a very useful fruit, but is remarkable for its great 

 size. One of the specimens exhibited by Mr. Wells's gar- 

 dener weighed four ounces, and measured seven inches and 

 a quarter in circumference. 



Mr. James Smith, of Duckenfield Nursery, near Man- 

 chester, exhibited specimens of a new Seedling Plum raised 

 in his neighbourhood, and named the Imperial Diadem. It 

 is a large regular oval, of the character of the Red Magnum 

 Bonum, deeply cleft, of a pale red colour ; becoming much 

 darker if suffered to hang on the tree till perfectly ripe. It is 

 of good flavour, and highly perfumed. Its size and beauty 

 will recommend it to notice, though its general application will 

 be for culinary purposes, to which it is admirably adapted. 



Mr. William Morgan sent from North Mimms Place, 

 in Hertfordshire, specimens of a new seedling called the 

 Mimms Plum, raised by himself from a stone of the Blue 

 Perdigron. The fruit has no resemblance to its parent, it 

 is very large, in shape and size approaching a well grown 

 Magnum Bonum; it is a perfect oval, very little wider 

 at the head than at the end next the stalk, and scarcely 

 at all compressed or indented at either extremity : the cleft 

 is but slightly perceptible. The skin slight reddish purple, 

 varied in parts with bright red, and covered with a fine meal. 

 Flesh with a pale greenish amber tint, tender, very juicy, of 

 a pleasant flavour, but loses considerably in quality if over 

 ripe. Stone rugged, and pointed at both ends. This fruit 



