certain Fruits. By Mr. John Turner. 69 



In the alteration made in the Succado Melon mentioned 

 by Mr. Turner there does not appear to have been any 

 attempt at artificial impregnation ; but there is an instance 

 recorded in the Society's Transactions,* of a change having 

 taken place in a Melon purposely impregnated by the farina of 

 another variety, by Mr. D avid Anderson, in Lord Montagu's 

 garden at Ditton Park. I have also been lately (December, 

 1821) informed of a similar variation of external form having 

 occurred in the last season in the collect ion of plants belonging 

 to Mr. Griffin at South Lambeth. A blossom of Amaryllis 

 vittata, the capsule of which is nearly globular, having been 

 impregnated by the farina of one of those species of Amaryllis 

 from South America, whose capsule has its angles very gibbous 

 at the base, the hybridized capsule, when it grew towards 

 maturity, assumed the shape belonging to the species which 

 had furnished the impregnating pollen. These deviations 

 from the usual course of nature are not however sufficient to 

 establish the position that the change is effected by impreg- 

 nation, whilst the long experience of the President, as stated 

 by himself, is opposed to the possibility of such change. It 

 remains therefore for us to attend to, and to investigate the 

 phenomena with peculiar care when they again occur, in the 

 hope of discovering the real cause of the change. 



* Vol. iii. page 318. 



