Varieties of Fruits. 



and was twenty-two inches in circumference. From the extra- 

 ordinary size and beauty of the fruit, it was thought proper by 

 the Fellows of the Society at the Meeting, that it should be 

 presented to His Majesty, which was accordingly done, and 

 it was served up in the dessert at the Royal table, at the Co- 

 ronation banquet. Mr. Buchan fruited three other Provi- 

 dence Pines, of extraordinary weight, in the same season ; 

 one weighed ten pounds six ounces, another ten pounds two 

 ounces, and a third nine pounds eight ounces, making the 

 total weight of the four forty pounds eight ounces. 



Mr. Isaac Oldaker sent from the garden of Lady Banks, 

 at Spring Grove, a fruit of the Russian Globe Pine Apple. 

 Plants of this variety were received by the Society in the year 

 1819, from St. Petersburgh, and by one of these the present 

 fruit was produced. The plant grows erect, the leaves are 

 broad and deeply serrated, of a shining brown colour when 

 young, but when full grown nearly of the colour of those of 

 the Queen Pine. The fruit is large, and globular, the pips 

 large and flat, the flesh is yellow, fine in texture, and of a 

 high flavour. The plant fruits freely, and from its superiority 

 deserves a place in every good collection. 



Pears. 



John Williams, Esq. sent specimens of a Seedling Pear, 

 the produce of a standard tree raised in his garden at Pitmas- 

 ton, from the Beurre du Roi, impregnated with the pollen of 

 the Catharine. It has taken the external character of the 

 Beurre, though it is not quite so large ; the flesh is perfectly 

 melting, and buttery, with the remarkable aroma which 



