546 Notices of Communications to the Society, fyc. 



On the 15th of July, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. 

 sent specimens of Nuts, which were quite plump and fresh. 

 They had been preserved to so late a season, by a very 

 simple but effectual process. When ripe they were put into 

 a large brown earthenware pan, which when filled with nuts, 

 was placed in a deep hole in a dry part of the garden. The 

 top of the pan being covered with a flat piece of wood on 

 which was put a heavy weight, the hole was filled with 

 earth. By these means, Nuts may be kept in a fresh state 

 till the season for gathering them from the trees returns. 



Captain Peter Rainier, R. N. in a Letter to the Secre- 

 tary, dated the 30th of August, detailed some particulars 

 of the effect produced on Pears by grafting them on Medlar 

 stocks. The fruit does not become inferior in flavour, and is 

 certainly more juicy. The grafts make very vigorous wood, 

 and invariably bear the second year after they are worked ; 

 the production of a crop does not prevent the growth of 

 their wood, notwithstanding they are so young. Some Pears 

 are altered much in their appearance by this treatment, as is 

 instanced in the Jargonelle, which remains nearly green when 

 ripe, and is a much shorter fruit than when produced from a 

 Pear or Quince stock. Captain Rainier states that he has 

 tried the experiment several years, but he has only worked 

 his grafts hitherto on the branches of old medlar trees ; he 

 has however no doubt they would do equally well on young 

 stocks. 



