THE ILLUSTRATION HORTICOLE. 



that with the exception of a few inaccuracies, inevitable in 

 M.nt. this part exhibits a perfect 

 : ,0111V, also, is a subject 

 that has been treated at exhaustive length, the result of 

 ., jvii . and !§kich we cannot too 

 sommend to fruit-growers and nurserymen. 

 The Apple, the first amongst fruits to engage attention 

 here below - to our sorrow, it appears - deserved the 

 honour of such a work. The first mention of the appletree 

 we find in the Song of Solomon ; all other references belong 

 m of table. Indeed no version of the Old Testa- 

 ment contains anything more definite than the word fruit 

 for the produce of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil. In 

 translating it bj the « ord " apple .. the author of the Arbore- 

 . could not resist making the follow- 



is little better than that which we learn at school : Malo 

 ilo qwwn mahm sine malo (*). 



lamination of the antagonistic opinions of va- 

 rious authors, M. I.eroy conies to the conclusion that the 

 apple tree is indigenous in the forests both of Europe and 



* in Asia alone, as contended by M.Koch in 



ters barely mention them. 

 , namely Agrestal, Urban, 

 and Serotines. Theocritus 

 id Dioscorides adds nothing 



m variety, as many as 26 

 r arro , Columello and Pliny. 

 biculatum, biferum, Scan- 



Empire, and the 

 mees in the capital 



the apple till the six- 

 talian, Agostino Gallo 



increased. La Quintyne, who was no great friend of apples, 

 displays his aversion to them and his love for the country 

 where they most abounded in his celebrated Instructions 

 (1690). Twenty years before this date, Dom Claude Saint- 

 Etienne published a list of 153 varieties ; but he does not 

 appear to have had many imitators, for all subsequent authors 

 give a much smaller number. "We must pass on to Pierre 

 Leroy d 1 Angers (1790) for a list embracing as many as 163 

 varieties. 



The third period, dating from the French Revolution, is 

 quite the reverse , showing a rapid increase in the number 

 and improvement in the quality of cultivated apples. M. A. 

 Bivort, 1847-1860, describes i;6 varieties; M. Mas, in 1873, 

 reaches to 104, and the Dictionnaire de Pomologie of M. A. 

 Leroy includes 550 varieties with 1880 synonymes. But a 

 line must be drawn somewhere , and we are amongst those 

 who will congratulate M. Leroy upon his having halted on 

 the right side of tediousness. 



The chapters devoted to the cultivation, propagation, etc., 

 of the apple are carefully written and replete with valuable 

 information, the result of patient and deep study. 



To sum up briefly, M. Leroy has presented us with a val- 

 uable and useful book, one which speaks favourably for the 

 advance of Arboriculture and Pomology, and one which does 

 honour to its author. E. A. 



Notice respecting volumes I and II of the Diction- 

 naire de Pomology. 



The question of synonomy being of the utmost import- 

 ance to Pomologists we direct the attention of the pos- 

 sessors of the preceding volumes of this work devoted to 

 the Pears, to the following notice which we have received 

 from M. Leroy. 



Since the publication of my Histoire du Poirier, for- 

 ming the two first volumes of the Dictionnaire de Pomologie, 

 the continued study of the various sorts in my nurseries 



: 



Abbe Pc 



the 





u,h 





the > 



2 Angobert. 



3 Arbre courbe. 



4 Bergamote de Bugey. 



5 Beurre Caty. 



6 Bonne de Soulers. 



7 Colmar Charni. 



8 Doyenne Louis. 



9 Doyenne Sentelet. 



10 Due de la Force. 



11 Duchesse de Brabant. 



i Bouet. 



Saint An 





Mansuette Double. 

 Amiral. 



Bergamote de Pro [ties. 

 Orpheline d'Enghien. 

 Bergamote de Paques. 

 Leon Leclerc Epineux. 

 Doyenne de Saumur. 

 Doyenne Commun. 

 Bellissime dTlivei. 

 Soldat-Laboureur. 

 Doyenne commun. 



„ Not to be misunderstood, 1 may add that I do not pretend 

 » say that all the Pears above ment.oned should be classed 

 I Synon y mes ' but simply that those- I have received under 



ese names were already in my collection bearing different 



A. Lebot, 



