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shorter than in the Black Hautbois ; the flowers the largest 

 of the Class yet known, with numerous stamens. 



A very abundant bearer, and it usually produces a partial 

 second crop, blossoming in August and September, and the 

 fruit ripening in October, or later if the season is fine; the 

 autumnal berries are much larger than the summer ones, and 

 nevertheless high flavoured. This variety is said to force 

 better than any other. 



5. Large Flat Hautbois. This kind has been hitherto 

 but little known in the gardens near London, it seems to have 

 been more common in the vicinity of Bath, and was first 

 brought into the notice of the Society by Sir Samuel Young, 

 Bart, who communicated plants and specimens of it from his 

 garden at Formosa Place, near Maidenhead, in Berkshire. He 

 received them in 1809 from Mrs. Lowder of Lansdown Cres- 

 cent, Bath, who obtained them from the garden at Warwick 

 Castle. 



Synonyms. 

 White. Formosa. 

 Bath. Lowder'B. 

 Salter's. Weymouth. 



It was also sent as the Prolific Hautbois, but that name is 

 more appropriate to the preceding kind. 



The fruit is roundish, depressed, light red and pale on the 

 under side, large, the flesh greenish, without core, juicy, but 

 though delicate, not so high flavoured as the other; seeds 

 embedded on the skin. The calyx reflexed. The footstalks 

 of the leaves are short, stiff, upright, hairy; the leaflets very 

 large, irregularly ovate, with rounded serratures, their texture 



