Varieties of Fruits. 



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not very juicy. Il is a late variety, and requires as high a 

 temperature as the Muscat of Alexandria. The Vine is very 

 healthy, making vigorous wood, and is a free bearer. The 

 fruit keeps well for a considerable time after it is ripe. The 

 Vine is believed to have been originally introduced from 

 Persia, by the way of Surat, to Aurungabad, and from thence 

 to Poonah, and its vicinity, where it is cultivated successfully ; 

 from Poonah the fruit is sent in its ripe slate to Bombay 

 and its dependencies. The character of this Grape having 

 been mentioned to Sir Joseph Banks by Mr. Briscoe, 

 measures were immediately taken for the purpose of intro- 

 ducing so valuable an addition to our gardens. Numerous 

 attempts failed, notwithstanding Sir Evan Nepean, then 

 Governor of Bombay, lent the most zealous assistance, by 

 transmitting plants by almost every ship. At length, in 1817, 

 a living plant was received, which, under the care of Mr. 

 Oldaker, at Spring Grove, was well established, and is now 

 in a full bearing state. 



Walnuts. 



George Beauchamp, Esq. sent to the Society specimens 

 of the Highflyer Walnut, grown in the town of Thetford, a 

 variety which appears to have been originally confined to 

 the neighbourhood of that place, and of Bury St. Edmund's, 

 and which has of late become very scarce, from the great 

 number of Walnut trees felled during the late war for gun 

 stocks. It is a long oval, with a shell so very thin that the 

 slightest pressure of the fingers crushes it. The kernel is full, 

 white, very tender and high flavoured. It is by far the 

 best Walnut grown ; attention ought consequently to be paid 



