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of such intermixture taking place, is given by the same writer, 
in the Transactions for the year 1748, and again alluded to by 
him in those for the year 1749. 
Having thus shewn that the opinion entertained is not a novel 
one, I shall proceed to mention the instances which I have ob- 
ser\ed. In the spring of 1819, I gave some carefully-saved 
melon seeds, of the Netted Succado kind, to a friend near Lon- 
don. The young plants raised from these were injudiciously 
planted by the gardener, in a frame with another larger and in- 
ferior variety. The fruits of the Succado set well ; but, as they 
swelled, they gave evident symptoms of having lost their true 
character; and, when cut, were found to be very worthless; aris- 
ing, as 1 conceive, from tlie share which the inferior variety had 
in them. In the autumn of the same year, I examined on the 
trees in Mr. Braddick’s garden, at Thames Ditton, an evident 
mixture of character in a Codlin and the Ribston Pippin, in 
more than one individual, on the sides of the trees next to one 
another; while the fruit on the opposite sides where wholly 
untainted. The probability of sucli mixtures taking place is 
great in 3Ir. Braddick’s Garden, owing to many varieties being 
grafted on the same stock, and to the closeness with which both 
the es|)alier and standard trees are planted. Early in the year 
18'i0, IMr. Braddick sent to the Society samples of two sorts of 
apples of the preceding year’s growth which he had himself 
taken from the trees, and carefully preserved, to shew the extra 
ordinary sport which they had made. The two sorts were the 
Holland Pippin, and the AVhite Winter Calville, apples totally 
dissimilar in appearance ; they grew on low standards. Aery 
near each other : two of the specimens, gathered from the sides 
of the trees not contiguous, retained their natural character 
perfectly well, but the White Calville gathered from the side of 
the tree next the Holland Pippin, had lost much of its own form 
and colour, and partaken largely of those of its neighbour ; while 
the Holland Pippin, taken from the side next the Calville, 
had become nearly a Calville in form and colour. In October 
of the same year, Mr. Brogden shewed me two apples, in which 
a no less remarkable change liad taken place. The one was a 
French Crab, grown near a Ribston Pippin, the character of 
which it had taken ; and the other was a Golden Pippin, Avhich 
grew near a Russet, and in which the two varieties, though so 
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