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not less indebted. His garden, at Brussels, has furnished 

 specimens to the Society, in the course of several seasons, 

 which have excited much admiration, and grafts have been 

 liberally supplied from thence, very great numbers of which 

 have been worked in the Society's garden, as well as in 

 those of many private persons ; and some of the plants 

 which have already fruited sufficiently show that the cli- 

 mate of the south of England is little less favourable to the 

 growth of this valuable fruit than that of the Netherlands. 



The specimens of Pears and Apples sent by Mr. Stof- 

 fels have not been selected from the produce of his own 

 garden only, but from those of the Comte de Coloma and 

 others : the selections, however, have been made with so 

 much attention, that grafts of all the approved sorts, not 

 already received, will be easily obtained by the Society. 



In the following lists the fruits are arranged, as nearly as 

 I could judge, in the order of their ripening, and the cha- 

 racters of the trees are given from information communicated 

 by Mr. Stoffels. 



Peabs. 



Sabine d'Ett. Raised in 1819, and named by Mr. Stof- 

 fels in honour of Mr. Sabine. The form is pyramidal, 

 broadest at the eye, and tapering to a round blunt point 

 at the stalk : the whole surface uninterrupted by any fold 

 or projection, and perfectly smooth and polished. Colour, 

 yellow on the shaded side, heightened into a fine scarlet 

 on the side exposed to the sun, minutely dotted. The eye 

 small, not deeply inserted. Stalk rather fleshy, an inch 

 long, inserted in a very shallow basin. Flesh white, or nearly 



