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to continue the kind by budding, on the plan recommended 

 by the President in the Transactions of the Society,* for 

 though varieties of Walnuts sometimes, and perhaps fre- 

 quently, reproduce themselves, no certain reliance can be 

 placed on the quality of seedlings. The specimens exhibited 

 were produced from trees growing in a small garden at the 

 back of the house of Mr. Jackson, a grocer, in Thetford, 

 and belonging to him. 



Pears. 



Specimens of a Pear, resembling the Bishop's Thumb, 

 were received from Mr. Samuel Knevett of Turnham 

 Green, and Mr. John Wilmot of Isleworth. The same 

 Pear had been received in a former year from Mr. Richard 

 Williams of Turnham Green. In that neighbourhood it 

 is called Knevett's Pear, from the circumstance of a tree of 

 the variety about fifty years old being in Mr. Knevett's 

 Garden. It is very long, somewhat Fig-shaped ; skin dull 

 green, covered on the exposed side with brownish red, and 

 sprinkled with minute brown spots. The flesh is white, firm, 

 yet melting, very sweet with a pleasant bergamot perfume. 

 It ripens towards the end of September, considerably before 

 the Bishop's Thumb Pear. This is the same Pear -as the 

 Poire Figue or Poire Pistolette, specimens of which have 

 been at different times received from Mr. Stoffels, of 

 Mechlin, in Flanders. The Flemish Poire Figue, however, 

 is not the same as the Poire Figue of Duhamel and Knoop, 

 their variety being that which is called in England the 

 Windsor Pear. 



* Vol. iii. page 133. 



