XXIII. 



THE SIBERIAN HARVEY. 



This variety is the offspring of a seed of the yellow Siberian 

 Crab, and the pollen of the Golden Ilarvey, and it derives its 

 existence from a successful attempt to combine the hardy 

 energetic character, and early maturity, of the Siberian Crab, 

 with the disposition of the Golden Harvey to generate saccha- 

 rine matte)-. Sucli an experiment cannot be expected very 

 often to succeed i and of more than three hundred varieties of 

 this family, which I have obtained from seeds, not more than 

 three or four appear to possess any degree of merit ; and the 

 Siberian Harvey alone, will probably deserve a place in the 

 orchard. 



The juice of this variety is most intensely sweet, and is pro* 

 bably very nearly what that of the Golden Harvey would be 

 in a southern climate. The original liee produced its first 

 blossoms in the year 1807, when its fruit obtained the annual 

 premium of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society; and it 

 has subsequently produced fruit every year: but the tree has 

 been so closely pruned for grafts, that I have once only pos- 

 sessed fruit enough to enable me to subject the juice to the 

 evidence of the hydrometer; and the sample of fruit I then 

 obtained was apparently very unfavourable. The specific 



