304 Notes and Gleanings. 



Dwarf Apple-Stocks. — At the meeting of the London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, Jan. 19, Dr. Hogg exhibited, on the part of Messrs. Rivers, a series of apple 

 and other stocks, and made some comments on them. The stocks sent were as 

 follows : — 



" Group No. I. — Apples on the Nonsuch English Paradise stock, with two 

 stocks one year old. The trees were one and two years old, with the exception 

 of the dwarf bushes, which were two and three years old : this stock was raised 

 at Sawbridgeworth from the Nonsuch Apple, some thirty odd years ago. The 

 specimens sent showed the great property of the stocks to produce surface- 

 roots, and of the scions grafted on them to produce bloom-buds, while their 

 vigorous growth was cliecked. 



" Group No. 2. — Apples on the broad-leaved English Paradise stock, with 

 two stocks one year old : the trees were one and two years old. This stock 

 was raised from seed in the same season as the former ; its parentage is, how- 

 ever, unknown. Both these stocks are remarkable for their rooting freely at the 

 surface, and giving a robust growth, with great fertility. 



"Group No. 3. — Apples on the French Doucin stock, one and two years 

 old: the best variety received from France. Tliis kind does not root so freely 

 near the surface in this climate as the English Paradise stocks. Two stocks, 

 one year old, were sent with the trees. This stock is different from the French 

 Paradise. 



"Group No. 4. — Apples on the French Paradise stock, one and two years 

 old, with two stocks one year old. The trees on this stock are very fertile, but 

 are apt to canker in the stiff, cold loams of Sawbridgeworth. These had been 

 recently imported." 



As to this stock, which is apparently quite different from that sent by other 

 exhibiters as the true Pommier de Paradis, Dr. Hogg remarked, that it was of 

 very dwarf habit, and never threw out strong woody roots. It differs from the 

 Enghsh Paradise, which latter is much stronger growing, and not nearly so 

 dwarf as the French Paradise. 



"Two Peach-Trees. — Bellegarde and Grosse Mignonne Early; budded on 

 a kind of White Magnum Bonum Plum. The ' French peaches ' were formerly 

 budded on the White Pear Plum and the Brompton Plum stocks : in France, at 

 the present day, they are budded on the Black Damask and the Mirabelle Plum 

 stocks, with no great success, as the stocks do not swell freely. The stock now 

 sent swells with the scion, and seems likely to supersede all other kinds of plum 

 stocks for the French peaches." 



With reference to these, Dr. Hogg stated, that the kinds formerly used as 

 stocks for peaches were the Mussel Plum, the Pear Plum, and the common 

 plum: •,. but it was found that the French peaches, such as the Teton de \'enus, 

 and others, would not unite satisfactorily with these stocks. Mr. Rivers, how- 

 ever, had discovered in Worcestershire a kind of plum, which he calls the Per- 

 &hore Plum, which is closely allied to the White Magnum, and which is suitable 

 for all peaches ajid nectarines. Messrs. Rivers also exhibited the following 

 stocks : — 



" One Burr Knot, a surface-rooting apple, forming a very good stock for gar- 



