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den apple-trees ; two pygmy Paradise stocks, one year old ; two miniature Par- 

 adise stocks one year old. These were sent to show the tendency of our old 

 kinds of apples to produce from seed surface-rooting dwarf trees ; they have not 

 yet been employed as stocks to graft apples on, owing to their feeble growth : they 

 were raised at Sawbridgeworth from seed some years since. One lateral single 

 cordon apple-tree on the English Paradise stock, five years old ; one vertical 

 cordon apple-tree, on the same kind of stock, and of the same age ; one lateral 

 single cordon apple-tree on the French Paradise stock, five years old — an im- 

 ported tree from France : the three last-mentioned trees had been growing side 

 by side in a stiff, cold, clayey soil."' 



Dr. Masters exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Scott of Merriott, specimens of 

 crab-stocks of English Paradise, received as such from the Woking growers, 

 and which had been injured by frost in 1867 ; and specimens of the Pommierde 

 Paradis of the French, growing in the same soil and of the same age as the 

 English Paradise. This is apparently quite different from the Pommier de 

 Paradis sent by Mr. Rivers. It was considered by the committee as likely to 

 canker, while the knobs or burrs so freely produced on its stem, and from which 

 roots proceed in abundance, were considered to be objectionable, as likely to 

 harbor American blight and similar pests. It is a vigorous stock, quite hardy, 

 and producing an abundance of somewhat horizontal surface fibrous roots. 

 Dr. Masters also showed, on behalf of Mr. J. F. Meston of Addlestone, speci- 

 mens of the French Paradise stock (apparently similar to that shown by Mr. 

 Scott), and of the Doucin stock, together with cordons of Reinette Francha, 

 Calville Blanc, Belle de Bois, and Canada Gris, worked on the French Paradise, 

 and of Reinette du Canada on the Doucin stock. The plants were imported 

 from France, and those on the Paradise were little more than a year from the 

 graft. The exhibition of these stocks, &c., created great interest, and it was 

 resolved that the exhibiters be requested to allow the specimens to be sent to 

 Chiswick, in order that they may be tested. We shall take another oppor- 

 tunity of alluding to them. 



Mr. Berkeley, Feb. 16, read a report from Mr. Barron, the superintendent of 

 the Chiswick Garden, containing an account of the various apple-stocks pre- 

 viously exhibited to the committee, and a comparison of them with others grow- 

 ing in the society's garden. Mr. Barron's able report will be published in full 

 in the Society's Journal at an early date, in pursuance of the new arrangements 

 for accelerating the publication of that periodical. We are, however, enabled, 

 by the courtesy of the secretary to the committee, to give its substance as 

 follows : — 



" In an old list of the orchard-trees in the society's garden, Chiswick, in Dr. 

 Lindley's handwriting, dated 1822, the stocks on which the various apples are 

 worked are stated ; viz., the Crab, the Doucin, the English Paradise, and the 

 French Paradise. Many of the identical examples given still exist in the garden, 

 and all have formed large orchard-trees. Those on the Crab and Doucin have 

 made considerably larger heads and trunks than those grafted on the English 

 and French Paradise, which are as nearly as possible equal. Some of the 

 trunks on the latter are, however, fully six inches in diameter. All of them 



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