THE SIBERIAN HARVEY. 
This variety is the offspring of a seed of tlie yellow .Siberian 
Crab, and th6 pollen of the Golden Harvey, and it derives its 
existence from a successful attempt to combine the hardy 
energetic character, and early maturity, of the Siberian Crab, 
vath the disposition of the Golden Harvey to generate saccha¬ 
rine matter. Such an experiment cannot be expected very 
often to succeed; 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 b© 
in a southern climate. The original tree 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 
