286 Account of a new variety of Crab Jlpple. 



Art. |II. Some Jlccount of a neic variety of the Mdlus mi- 

 crocdrpa; translated from the Bulletin of the Societie d"* Hor- 

 ticulture d^Rouen, for 1841. By the Editor. 



[The Massachusetts Horticultural Societ}' have lately re- 

 ceived from the Horticultural Society of Roun, through their 

 President, M. Tougard, who has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, several 

 pamphlets, containing the doings of the Rouen Horticultural 

 'Society, from its organization up to the year 1S42, a period 

 of seven years. These pamphlets, or bulletins as they are 

 called, contain a report of the principal meetings of the Socie- 

 ty for each year, an account of the annual "Exposition Pub- 

 lique," or annual exhibition, and also papers and communica- 

 tions read before the Society from time to time, by various 

 individuals, members of the Society. Among these papers 

 we have found some which are interesting to cultivators, and 

 we shall embrace the opportunity to lay some of them before 

 our readers. We have now translated the following account 

 of a new and highly ornamental variety of the Crab apple, 

 well worthy of introduction into our gardens. — Ed.] 



You will recollect, perhaps, gentlemen, the infinitely small 

 red apples which I have several times exhibited before you; 

 these were the fruits of the i.^ialus microcarpa, the diameter 

 of which was only five to seven millimetres,* and the size 

 only that of small peas or gooseberries. 



But, notwithstanding its small size, this apple contains in its 

 five cartiligenous cells the kernels which are perfect, and 

 agree, in all their proportions, with this family of fruit. 



The 20th of March, 1830, 1 sowed several of these seeds or 

 kernels; but I succeeded in raising only four vigorous trees, 

 two of which have not yet flowered (1841,) the other two have 

 flowered and fruited, one in 1839 for the first time, and the 

 other in 1840; both have presented the same character in the 

 flowers and fruit; but as that which flowered and fruited in 



* A metre is about thirty-nine and a half inches; a centimetre, a 

 hundredth part of a metre; and a millimetre, a thousandth part of a 

 metre. — Ed. 



