A communication of some importance has been forwarded to me by Mr. Cameron of Uckfield, by whom this variety was first propagated. He says the fruit should be allowed to hang late on the tree before it is gathered, so as to secure its peculiar richness of flavor, and long period of duration; for if gathered too soon, it looses much of its fine richness and is very apt to shrivel. The tree does not attain a large size, but is perfectly hardy, and an early and excellent bearer; young trees, only two or three years from the graft, producing a considerable crop of handsome, well-grown fruit. This esteemed variety originated about the year 1770, in a garden now in the possession of Mr. Mannington, a respectable butcher at Uckfield in Sussex. At the time it was raised the garden belonged to Mr. Turley, a blacksmith, and grandfather of Mr. Mannington. The original tree grew up at the root of a hedge, where the refuse from a cider press had been thrown; it never attained any great size, but continued to preserve a stunted, and diminutive habit of growth, till it died about the year 1820. Previous to this, however, grafts had been freely distributed to persons in the neighbourhood, many of whom were anxious to possess such a desideratum; but it does not seem to have been known beyond its own locality, till the autumn of 1847, when Mr. Mannington caused specimens of the fruit to be forwarded to the London Horticultural Society, and by whom it was pronounced to be a dessert fruit of the highest excellence. It was designated by Mr. Thompson “Mannington’s Pearmain.” 221. MARGARET.--Rea. IDENTIFICATION.--Rea. Pom. 209. Raii. Hist. ii. 1447. Lang. Pom. 134, t. lxxiv. fig. 1. Rog. Fr. Cult. 30. Fors. Treat. 114. SYNONYMES.--Early Red Margaret, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 3, n. 425. _Lind. Guide_, 8. _Down. Fr. Amer._ 73. Early Red Juneating, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 1, 504. Red Juneating, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Striped Juneating, _Ibid._ ed. 1, 506. Early Striped Juneating, _Ibid._ Striped Quarrenden, _Ibid_, ed. 1, 823. Summer Traveller, _Ibid_, 1083. Eve Apple, _In Ireland, acc. Robertson in Hort. Trans._ iii. 452. Early Margaret, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Marget-Apple, _Meager. Eng. Gard._ Maudlin, _Switz. Fr. Gard._ 135. Magdalene, _Gibs. Fr. Gard._ 352. Marguerite, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Lammas, _acc. Fors. Treat._ FIGURES.--Pom. Mag. t. 46. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. vi. f. 1. [Illustration] Fruit, medium sized; roundish-ovate, and narrowing towards the eye, where it is angular. Skin, greenish-yellow on the shaded side; but bright-red next the sun, striped all over with darker red, and strewed with grey russety dots. Eye, half open, and prominent; with long, broad, erect segments, surrounded with a number of puckered knobs. Stalk, short and thick, about half-an-inch long, inserted in a small, and shallow cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, brisk, juicy, and vinous, with a pleasant and very refreshing flavor.