is well known ; and their beautiful aspects in pots, 

 and in the middle of a dessert, has been the glory of 

 one of the most generous encouragers of gardening 

 this age has produced, I mean the Right Honourable 

 the Lord Castlemain." 



From which it appears that the Nonpareil has 

 been in our Gardens above two hundred years. 



Mr. Thompson remarks to us, that the French 

 do not seem to know what an English Nonpareil 

 is, notwithstanding the publication of their country- 

 man Duhamel, because Noisette speaks of it as 

 being very like the Reinette de Canada, only less 

 in all its parts : and further, that it is probable that 

 the Americans are unacquainted with it, for their 

 great writer, Coxe, speaks of what he calls the 

 Nonpareil in terms of no great praise, and figures it 

 with a very short thick stalk, — a character the re- 

 verse of that of the Nonpareil, which has uniformly 

 a long slender stalk. 



A good bearer, but rather a tender tree : the 

 fruit keeps well, with care, till May. 



Wood slender, reddish chestnut, very slightly 

 downy, apt to canker in cold damp situations. 



Leaves rather small, erect, oval, tapering to the 

 petiole, a little folded together. 



Flowers middle-sized. Petals ovate, but 

 little imbricated ; bright rose - colour when ex- 

 panding. 



Fruit approaching to middle-sized, flat, broadest 

 at the base. Stalk slender, about an inch long. 

 Skin, when the fruit is fit for use, greenish yellow, 

 slightly coated with light russet ; occasionally, if 

 much exposed to the sun, of a deep, rich, reddish 

 brown on one side. 



