certain Fruits. By Mr. John Turner. 67 



their true characters, even without reference to saving seed 

 for a future crop. Such experiments, will, I doubt not, fre- 

 quently succeed if made with care, and on large flowered 

 plants ; on Apples, Pears, &c. it will probably be accident only 

 that will give success. 



Note by the President. 



The Council of the Horticultural Society having done me 

 the honour to ask my opinion upon the subject of the fore- 

 going Paper ; I beg leave to observe, that, not having seen the 

 varieties of fruit mentioned in it, I feel much less qualified 

 to judge than those gentlemen who had opportunities of 

 inspecting all the circumstances. The evidence given, how- 

 ever, is much more than sufficient to satisfy me most per- 

 fectly that the variations of form and quality were as exten- 

 sive as they are described to have been : and indeed I have 

 stated in a former communication to the Society,* a much 

 more extraordinary circumstance of the same kind, in which 

 a branch of the Yellow Magnum Bonum Plum tree bore red 

 fruit, perfectly similar in appearance to the variety usually 

 called the Red Magnum Bonum Plum. This occurred in 

 one season only ; after which the branch recovered its former 

 habits. My garden did not contain the variety last mentioned, 

 but if it had, I should not be in the least inclined to attribute 

 the change of colour and character, which occurred, to the 

 operation of its pollen ; for I have in some hundred instances 

 (I can in truth say, in some thousand instances) introduced the 



* See Transactions, Vol ii.page 160. 



