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Sir Harry. —Fruit very large, roundish, irregular, 
frequently cockscomb-shaped. Seeds large, and deeply 
embedded. Skin dark crimson, becoming almost black 
when fully ripe. Flesh dark red, not very firm, but 
tender, very juicy, and richly flavoured. 
the nut, and does not nearly fill the shell. It requires 
to be eaten when fresh, as it very soon becomes rancid. 
The shell of this variety is used by the jewellers for 
jewel-cases, and is frequently fitted up with ladies’ em¬ 
broidery instruments. 
Sir Walter Scott. —Fruit medium sized, conical, and 
pointed, with prominent seeds. Skin deep red. Flesh 
pale, firm, aud inferior in flavour. 
Stirling Castle Fine. —Fruit large, ovate or conical, 
pointed, even and regular in shape. Seeds small, not 
deeply embedded. Skin of a bright scarlet colour, be¬ 
coming dark red as it ripens. Flesh pale scarlet, brisk, 
and of excellent flavour. 
Swainstone’s Seedling (Royal Pine). —Fruit above 
medium size, ovate, even and regular in its shape. Seeds 
small, and rather deeply embedded. Skin pale red. Flesh 
pale, rather hollow round the core, and with a fine rich 
flavour. 
This is a good variety for forcing, and is a good bearer. 
Trollope’s Victoria. — Fruit very large, roundish, 
even and regular in its outline. Skin light crimson. 
Flesh pale scarlet, tender, juicy, 3weet, and richly 
flavoured. 
This is a good early strawberry, and an excellent 
bearer. 
Viscomtesso Hericart de Thury. See Duck esse de 
Precise. 
Wiljiot’s Prince Arthur. —Fruit large, conical, even 
and regular. Seeds small, not deeply embedded. Skin 
deep red and glossy. Flesh scarlet, firm, but hollow at 
the core, of a rich flavour when highly ripened. 
The plant is a great bearer, and the fruit bears carriage 
well. 
LIST OF SELECT 
Black Prince 
British Queen 
Carolina Superba 
Deptford Pine 
Duchesse do Trevise 
Elton 
STRAWBERRIES. 
Highland Chief 
Keens’ Seedling 
Myatt’s Eliza 
Oscar 
Princoss Royal of England 
Swainstone’s Seedling 
WALNUTS. 
A Bijoux. See Large Fruited. 
Common. —The common walnut being raised from seeds 
there are a great number of varieties among those grown 
in this country, varying in size, flavour, thickness of the 
shell, and fertility. To secure a variety of a certain 
character, it must be perpetuated by grafting in the same 
way as varieties of other fruit trees are propagated. 
A Coque Tendre. See Thin Shelled. 
Double. See Large Fruited. 
Dwarf Prolific (Early Rearing; Fertile ; Prmpar- 
turiens ; Precocious). — This is a dwarf-growing, early- 
bearing variety, which I have seen produce fruit when 
not more than two and a half to three feet high ; and a 
tree in my possession, not more than six feet high, bears 
abundant crops of good-sized and well-flavoured fruit. 
This variety reproduces itself from seed. 
Early Bearing. See Dwarf Prolific. 
Fertile. See Dwarf Prolific. 
French. See Large Fruited. 
Highflyer. —This variety ripens its fruit considerably 
earlier than the others, and is of good size and well 
flavoured. 
De Jauge. See Large Fruited. 
Large Fruited (aRijoux; Double; French; de Jauge; 
a Pres Gros Fruit).—Nuts very large, two or three times 
larger than the common walnut, and somewhat square 
or oblong in shape. The kernel is small for the size of 
Late (Tardif; Saint Jean). —The leaves and flowers of 
this variety are not developed till near the end of June, 
after all danger from frosts has passed. The nuts are of 
medium size, roundish, and well filled ; but they do not 
keep loDg. The tree is very productive, and is repro¬ 
duced from the seed. 
A Mesange. See Thin Shelled. 
Prscparturiens. See Dwarf Prolific. 
Precocious. See Dwarf Prolific. 
Saint Jean. See Late. 
Tardif. See Late. 
Thin Shelled (d Coque Tendre; a Mesange). —Nuts 
oblong, with a tender shell, and well filled. This is the 
best of all the varieties. 
A Tres Gros Fruit. See Large Fruited. 
Yorkshire. —This is of large size, but not so large as 
the Large Fruited. It fills and ripens well. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S COMMITTEES. 
FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
A Meeting of the Fruit Committee was held on Tuesday, the 
12th inst., at the Rooms, 8, St. Martin’s Place. Mr. Charles 
Edmonds, Vice-Chairman, in the chair. 
There was a very large attendance of the members, and the 
time of the Meeting was chiefly occupied with the consideration 
and adoption of rules for the regulation of the Local Committees 
which it is intended to form in various districts throughout the 
country. By the formation of these CommiLtees, it is expected 
that much valuable information will he obtained respecting the 
numerous varieties of fruits which are at present confined to 
certain districts, and which are only possessed of local reputa¬ 
tion. They will also be the means of collecting an amount 
of particulars relative to the circumstances under which fruits 
are cultivated in different parts of the country, which cannot 
fail to be highly valuable. 
A prize of one pound was offered at this Meeting for the best 
Seedling Strawberry, for which there were two competitions. 
Messrs. J. <fe E. Small, of Colnbrook, Bucks, sent two baskets 
of Ingram's Prince Arthur Strawberry, a medium-size conical 
fruit, of a pale scarlet colour, firm flesh, which is white through¬ 
out, and with a marked Pine flavour, and fine piquancy. Mr. 
W. Prestoe, gardener to Sir Richard Bellied!, Hackwood Park, 
Basingstoke, sent plants, in pots, of a Seedling unnamed, the 
fruit of which is medium-sized, of a dark-red colour, in the way 
of Keens' Seedling; but the fruit was so damaged by carriage, 
that it was impossible for the Committee to form any opinion 
upon its merits. The prize was awarded to Ingram's Prince 
Arthur. This, we think, will prove an excellent Strawberry. It 
is evidently of the Old Pine race, having the glossy neck and 
Pine flavour of that variety, though perfectly distinct from it. It 
was requested that both of the above varieties be again exhibited 
at the next Meeting, on the 10th of July, when the same prize 
for Seedling Strawberries will be repeated among others for 
other kinds of fruit. 
N. Lockyer, Esq., sent several specimens of Lemons grown 
against a wall at his residence near Plymouth. The tree has 
been in bearing ever since 1S22, and is protected with glass 
during the winter. The fruit was very fine and quite equal to 
those imported from the South of Europe. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
Tliis Committee met on Thursday, the 11th inst., at the 
Rooms, 8, St. Martin’s Place. J. J. Blandy, Esq., V .P.H.S., in 
the chair, and the Meeting was numerously attended. 
Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury, sent a Seedling Fuchsia, Magna 
multiflora, with white reflexed sepals, and dark crimson petals; 
but it was not considered sufficiently distinct from others in 
cultivation to merit special notice. 
Mr. John Standisli, of Bagshot, sent Azalea amcena hglrida, 
a variety obtained between A. amcena and A. lateritia, which is 
so hardy as to have stood in the open ground for the last two 
