396 Notice of New or Remarkable Varieties of Fruits, 



tree is growing as a standard in an open quarter, and is so 

 hardy in its blossoms that it produces a crop even in an un- 

 favourable season. Its fruit does not ripen on the tree, but 

 probably would do so on a wall, as it only requires to be kept 

 a week or ten days after it is gathered, before it is fit for the 

 table. 



Messrs. George and William Tindall, of Beverley, in 

 Yorkshire, sent to the Meeting on the 20th of January, 1824, 

 specimens of a new variety of Swan's Egg Pear, which is 

 stated to succeed well in that neighbourhood. It is larger 

 and browner than the Common Swan's Egg, and equal to it in 

 flavour. It keeps well till the end of January, and sometimes 

 later. It has been named Tindall s Swans Egg. Plants of 

 the variety have been subsequently presented to the Garden 

 of the Society by Messrs. Tindall, from their Nursery. 



A plant of the Ska Lee, or Sand Pear of China, was 

 introduced by the Horticultural Society from China, in the 

 Spring of 1820, on board the Cornwall, Captain John Peter 

 Wilson. A graft of it having been sent to the President, 

 was placed by him on an old Pear-tree against a south wall 

 in his garden at Downton, and it produced fruit in 1823. 

 On the 17th of November in that year, a specimen was sent 

 by Mr. Knight to the Society ; it was near three inches long, 

 and two inches and a half in diameter in the middle, and 

 nearly equal at both ends, forming almost a perfect oval. 

 The stalk was unusually long, the eye small, close, deeply 

 sunk; the skin pale dull yellow, covered with numerous 

 rough brown spots; the flesh white and crisp, with the 

 flavor of an apple rather than of a pear, and of no particular 

 excellence. The tree appears to be a distinct species, but 



